Vought Aircraft - VE-7 & Regulus I 4-15-08

[pilot06]

I want that!!

PC

[Jerry O'Neill]

FYI;
The shot of the Corsair with the measurement squares marked out on the elevators was taken out side the Vought experimental hanger, where they would test new designs and modify any aircraft that needed to be brought up to current requirements.

Also notice the 16 mm film camera mounted in the tear drop fairing on the vertical stabilizer. It was set there to record in flight elevator data.

This hanger still exists and is now home to the Connecticut Air and Space Center.
Jerry

[Mark Nankivil]

Hi Jerry -

Thanks for the added info - the next batch of photos I'll post has a detail shot of the camera fairing.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[Greg87]

Anyone have any background story on the Corsair with the 6 bladed prop? Looks to be counter rotating?

[Jerry O'Neill]

I don't have the specific with me, but is was a one-off experiment in counter-rotating propellers. It didn't increase speed, just the complexity, so it never went any further.
I have a bunch of photos from P&W taken in East Hartford of the aircraft during it's testing there. Hamilton Standard was also based at Pratt's, Rentschler Field, at that time.
I'd post them, but I'm working on a book that they will be used in.
Jerry

[F3A-1]

Mark,

Thank you for posting the great photos, even though they are not Brewster Corsairs. These photos and others like them are wonderful documentation of paint and other details. They also give me some idea of where the parts go once they are straightened!

Pirate Lex
http://www.BrewsterCorsair.com

[Mark Nankivil]

Hi All -

Here's the next batch of Corsairs. Jerry, the camera details will end up in the next batch....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[Tim Landers]

WOW those are great pics! Keep'em coming

[Ryan Keough]

I've made this thread a sticky as Mark has said that he will be posting much like the Long Island and Grumman aviation thread.

[Mark Nankivil]

Thanks Ryan! Mark

[Mark Nankivil]

Greetings All -

A short break from Corsair photos...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of having dinner with Thomas Doll, author of a number of books on USN aircraft from the late '20s up thru the '60s. Tom passed onto me a number of photos of Vought aircraft which I've scanned and will post along with the photos from the Vought archives. Here's the first batch of scans from the Tom Doll photos.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

A midair between two O2U-2s near North Island - April, 1929




Assigned to the USS Oklahoma, I am assuming this is on regular landing gear while ashore, floats while on ship


A series of photos of an O3U-1 landing and hooking up to be hauled aboard ship






Interesting to see the same aircraft with both landing gear and with floats












The Navy's first carrier, CV-1 USS Langley...


And these are for Dan K...

[merlin101]

Excellent start, looking forward to any British FAA stuff you find,
Dave

[Connery]

Great pics, first ones I've seen of the SeaWolf

[tulsaboy]

Great pics! Do you have any more from the U.S.S. Oklahoma? Are there any O3U survivors?

kevin

[RickH]

The Seawolf certainly gives new meaning to the term, greenhouse, doesn't it ?