Corsair

steve dickey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:01 pm

While working on the CAF's Corsair the other day, me and my co-worker were discussing the "long view" (he was in the cockpit I was putting repaired exhaust back in) from the cockpit and I told him that back in the day pilots nicknamed the Corsair as "Old Hose Nose", I have seen one being called "Big Hog", in fact there was a -1 restored like that back in the early eightys I believe with that paint scheme. Where it is now I don't rightly know? But I wonder if this is true and it seems I recall one being given that name for nose art?
Jack could you please help? Picture? Thanks.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:49 pm

F4U-1A #1 BuNo 17659 flown by LCDR Tom Blackburn CO VF-17
(L-R) Whit Wharton, Doug Gutenkunst, Dirty Eddie March, Tom Blackburn, Tom Killefer, Big Jim Streig, DR Lyle Herrman-flight surgeon Cpl Jim Taylor USMC-ground crew

steve dickey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:15 pm

Thanks tracey!, and thanks Jack!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:22 pm

Quote:

after being restored at Paine Field

Jim Landry who was killed flying a Lockheed Loadstar full of
skydivers. They all ran aft to jump at the same time causing a severe
aft cg. The a/c went out of control and all but the skydiver at the door perished

Flashonyrsix · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm

Jim owned the loadstar that crashed with the skydivers but wasn't on board. He died a few years later in a sky diving accident as a jumper.

Norm

corsair166b · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:35 pm

K, so, here's a knowledge test...in the photo above, the Corsair in question has some mismatched paint just below the cockpit where some holes were patched...anyone know the story behind them? I do, but I want to see if you guys do...it's kind of a funny story....

Will reveal the answer here soon if no one knows it..

Mark

Hal B · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:37 pm

Norm, you beat me to it...

Lots of stories about the restoration of Jim L's Corsair used to float around Paine Field. Heard 'em all while working on another Corsair down there.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:40 pm

I must be getting old and my memory failing

Canso42 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:12 pm

Steve Dickey and CAF Corsair,
I have G-BUXL framed on my office wall with four other Corsairs. They are mostly from Makanna's "Ghosts'Calendar with one from a 1990 Stan Stokes CAF pubication.
N11Y FG-1D is on the calendar now.
Also are : CAF's FG-1D marked 'Navy #13 ',
Lone Star's dash 5N, N43RW, marked 'RW #21"
dash 5NL, NX49068 marked ' WF 14.'

The frames are quick change units from Hobby Lobby. Just twist the plastic frame and the tempered glass pops out. I have the black background marked for standare calendar pictures. My air cover changes often and it's really cool to put up a photo and be able to say that I know someone involved with it. Not to mention Lone Star's.

blue skies
Doug Ratchford
vol. Lone Star Fight mus.

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:10 am

Tracey-

Exactamundo. Story goes that after they landed, Blackburn told Hedrick "Roger, you lousy shot, when thosae bullets hit my plane they knocked me three feet sideways!" or some similar such phrase. A funny ending to what could have been a tragic accident, because if those bullets had hit just a few feet highter....

Tracey, visited and signed the CAF Corsair page last night....good stuff ya got goin' there...

Mark

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:14 am

That's correct Mark. I was a regular at the Blackburn house in Jax when my step-dad was station at the NAS. Tom said that Hedrick was by far the best fighter pilot in the unit but fortunately was a bit off in his shotting that one time.

corsairboss · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:56 pm

Tracy the 1 photo of the F4U-5 with the NP and the Stars on the Rudder is my shot. I believe you may have borrowed that from the Gathering Web Site. I shot that photo of Steve Bakke flying Mr. Thompson Corsair. Thankx.

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:39 am

There was a -1 Corsair based in Wyoming back in the '80s (owned by the Tired Iron Racing Team as I recall) that I believe had the name "Wart Hawg" on the nose. I saw it at several airshows in Colorado "back in the day."

SN

steve dickey · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:09 am

[quote="CAF Corsair"]Hi Steve,

That certainly was the Tired Iron Racing Team's bird, the FG-1D, N4715C, which had "82" "Navy VF-53" and "Wart Hog" markings. It is now the Jeff Clyman machine "Skyboss" out of New York, N83JC. The aircraft has retained the checkerboard cowling and tail that it wore back then.

Just jumping back to Steve Dickey's opening question on this thread about [i]"Big Hog"[/i]. There was a really good write-up on that FG-1D in the May 1983 edition of [i]Air Classics[/i], where it graced the front cover, and inside was a 6 page article titled [i]"Big Hog: Restoring a World War Two Corsair To Mint Condition"[/i].

Regards,
~ Tracey[/quote]

Hi Tracey, yeah I remember that issue as a kid!, and I should have it in my collection of Air classics that is mostly complete! (not gonna dig it out though!!) I also remember "Wart Hog", but my main question and am looking for documentation photographic or otherwise on the term " ole hose nose"
Thanks.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:29 am

Quote:

I believe you may have borrowed that from the Gathering Web Site

"Ass-u-me"
How do you know it wasn't forwarded by a third party like possibly Mr Thompson himself???

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