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NACA PHOTO
DESCRIPTION: A Vought F4U-1 Corsair, a "Birdcage", so called for the canopy framing around the cockpit. Several F4Us were flown by the by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Langley Research Center at Hampton, Virginia (USA), but this F4U-1 only flew at Langley for two months in 1943 before going to the U.S. Navy at Norfolk Naval Air Station. Date 31 July 1943.

NACA PHOTO
DESCRIPTION: A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Reisen (Allied code "Zeke" or "Zero") at the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center, Virginia (USA), on 8 March 1943. On 3 June 1942 a Japanese task force launched a strike against Dutch Harbor, Alaska (USA), from the aircraft carriers Ryujo and Junyo. Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga was flying an A6M2 from the Ryujo. On the way back to his carrier, he discovered of bullets had pierced his fuel tanks. Therefore he headed for an emergency landing on the bleak marshes of Akutan Island which had been designated as an emergency landing area. However, the plane flipped over on its back during the landing, and Koga was killed, as he broke his neck. The A6M itself was only slightly damaged. A Japanese submarine failed to locate Koga or his plane but five weeks later an American naval scouting party found the Japanese fighter. The A6M2 was salvaged and shipped back to the USA where is was repaired and reflown, and went through an exhaustive series of tests in order to gain information about its strengths and weaknesses. Date 8 March 1943.

NACA PHOTO
DESCRIPTION: A U.S. Army Air Force De Havilland Canada Mosquito which was flown at the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center, Virginia (USA), by test pilot Bill Gray during longitudinal stability and control studies of the aircraft in 1945. This aircraft was originally a Mosquito B Mk XX, the Canadian version of the Mosquito B Mk IV bomber aircraft. 145 were built, of which 40 were converted into photo-reconnaissance aircraft for the USAAF, which designated the planes F-8. Date 4 January 1945.

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I have the data plate for a NACA SB2C-1

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NACA PHOTO
DESCRIPTION: A Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver at the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center, Virginia (USA), on 31 May 1944. Date 31 May 1944.

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Dat the one!

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There's an article on Koga's Zero in the February 2010 Flight Journal magazine, with pictures of the wreck, recovery and flying in the US markings. Article says it was destroyed by a runaway taxiing Helldiver which slammed into the back of it and chewed it to shreds in February 1945. I wonder if that's the same Helldiver?

Anybody know what color that Helldiver would have been?

Being a test aircraft, probably Frenchs mustard yellow

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And in a related vein, anyone know what colors this one was? (I'd like to know for some stuff I'm doing for a flight sim). http://www.airteamimages.com/curtiss-sb2c-helldiver_83292_naca_159833.html

Again, I'd say yellow, just a sunnnier day.

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