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Pictures of the Alaska bound Corsair's new colors can be found here:
http://www.warbirdaeropress.com/smf/ind ... opic=329.0
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I think I'm the only person I know of that actually enjoyed the uniqueness of the green & white stripes. :lol: Except for the "too bright" white nose, I've never been able to figure out why the blue/green scheme turned so many people off. Looks like everything other than the stripes remains the same on BuNo.97359.

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Couldn't open the photos as it requires a password.
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Rob Mears wrote:
I think I'm the only person I know of that actually enjoyed the uniqueness of the green & white stripes. :lol: Except for the "too bright" white nose, I've never been able to figure out why the blue/green scheme turned so many people off. Looks like everything other than the stripes remains the same on BuNo.97359.


I liked the stripes too Rob, almost as much as I liked them on the ex-Mike Bogue (sp?) Tigercat.
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Rob Mears wrote:
I think I'm the only person I know of that actually enjoyed the uniqueness of the green & white stripes. :lol: Except for the "too bright" white nose, I've never been able to figure out why the blue/green scheme turned so many people off. Looks like everything other than the stripes remains the same on BuNo.97359.


I built the Matchbox 1/72 kit with those colors many moons ago (oob), and did like them. So you're not all alone Rob...

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in following the links and reading a bit about the planes new owner all I can say is - that is one heck of a birthday present for a non-pilot!!

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Our info on the www.f4ucorsair.com website is fairly old....and we have'nt updated it in quite a while, obviously something we need to think of doing here soon....the plane was sold by Max Chapman to Tony Raftis, who then sold it on to the guy in Alaska....far as I know, it still appears in its current livery with green and white stripes and I have not heard of any plans to repaint it....apparently it will split its time between Alaska in the summer and California in the winter...

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far as I know, it still appears in its current livery with green and white stripes and I have not heard of any plans to repaint it....
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Maybe you should click on the link in the first post.
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Chad Veich wrote:
corsair166b wrote:
far as I know, it still appears in its current livery with green and white stripes and I have not heard of any plans to repaint it....
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Maybe you should click on the link in the first post.


Can someone post the photos of the new livery here, I can't access them from the first post.
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Chad Veich wrote:
corsair166b wrote:
far as I know, it still appears in its current livery with green and white stripes and I have not heard of any plans to repaint it....
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Maybe you should click on the link in the first post.


Can someone post the photos of the new livery here, I can't access them from the first post.
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If they were my pictures I post em here.
Maybe this will work for you
Try going here
http://www.warbirdaeropress.com/
Click on Message board and it is under the heading Corsair to ID.
Hope it works for you.
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