Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:38 pm
T J Johansen wrote:Many great photos here. Thanks for sharing. Just wondering, since the CAF obviously have owned this a/c for many years, did it ever wear the old CAF "house colors" of white with red/blue trim?
T J
According to this: http://www.dfwwing.com/CAF%20Corsair%20 ... g_2006.pdf
This IS the original Corsair and was painted in the white with red/blue trim in the 60's. Then in 1972 it was as Boyington's 883 of VMF-214. After crashing in '74 and being put into storage, it was restored by Vought in 1980-81 into the #13 scheme from the USS Essex. Finally in 2001 Vought repainted it again into the current scheme #530 of Mo Chance of VMF-312.
CAF Photos
Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:13 am
Connery, I will put up some more photos as long as there is no more Oxygen Depervation, or any Lost Goats this time. I have never had any Goats, raised Clydesdale Horses for 10 years but never any Goats.
Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:39 am
Connery wrote:T J Johansen wrote:Many great photos here. Thanks for sharing. Just wondering, since the CAF obviously have owned this a/c for many years, did it ever wear the old CAF "house colors" of white with red/blue trim?
T J
According to this: http://www.dfwwing.com/CAF%20Corsair%20 ... g_2006.pdf
This IS the original Corsair and was painted in the white with red/blue trim in the 60's. Then in 1972 it was as Boyington's 883 of VMF-214. After crashing in '74 and being put into storage, it was restored by Vought in 1980-81 into the #13 scheme from the USS Essex. Finally in 2001 Vought repainted it again into the current scheme #530 of Mo Chance of VMF-312.
Thanks alot. Guess that settles it then. The Corsair did have the CAF colors...
T J
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Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:46 am
I will put up some more photos as long as there is no more Oxygen Depervation, or any Lost Goats this time
Is this english or jibberish?
Re: ???
Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:18 pm
Jack Cook wrote:I will put up some more photos as long as there is no more Oxygen Depervation, or any Lost Goats this time
Is this english or jibberish?
Uhm yeah, what he said
Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:01 pm
Aloha All,
The late Jay Frank Dial, author of the two F4U Profile Publications and the P-39 Profile, was the source for aircraft markings for the Confederate Air Force when they abandoned the red-white-blue schemes. With Jay's 'bent' for the Corsair, he made the CAF B1RD into Pappy Boyington's plane.
CAF Col Don McGinley took the F4U to an Olathe, KS airshow...and made several passes and saw a red low fuel light on the dash. He later said that he thought the plane still had a "stand-pipe" in the fuel tank and made a another pass...and as he was coming in to land...the blades stopped. He went through some power lines and bellied into a farmer's field. The first to arrive was the farmer who ignored Don's bleeding head (gun sight) and put his thumbs behind the straps on his bib overalls and exclaimed. "I thought I'd never see ANOTHER one of those planes in my field!" Olathe, KS was a former USN base in WWII.
So the plane was trucked to Meacham Field, Ft Worth, where the Corsair with the "McGinley Modification" became a hangar queen! I sat in her many times during that era, along with a hangar queen Spanish 109 in Spanish Civil War markings (as seen in movie Hindenburg).
The CEO of LTV spent some cash and with the LTV retirees built the plane as #13. After the CEO got in trouble for illegal stock trading (Martha Stewart style), I lost track of what happened to #13... Thanks for getting me up to speed!
Cheers,
David Aiken
The late Jay Frank Dial, author of the two F4U Profile Publications and the P-39 Profile, was the source for aircraft markings for the Confederate Air Force when they abandoned the red-white-blue schemes. With Jay's 'bent' for the Corsair, he made the CAF B1RD into Pappy Boyington's plane.
CAF Col Don McGinley took the F4U to an Olathe, KS airshow...and made several passes and saw a red low fuel light on the dash. He later said that he thought the plane still had a "stand-pipe" in the fuel tank and made a another pass...and as he was coming in to land...the blades stopped. He went through some power lines and bellied into a farmer's field. The first to arrive was the farmer who ignored Don's bleeding head (gun sight) and put his thumbs behind the straps on his bib overalls and exclaimed. "I thought I'd never see ANOTHER one of those planes in my field!" Olathe, KS was a former USN base in WWII.
So the plane was trucked to Meacham Field, Ft Worth, where the Corsair with the "McGinley Modification" became a hangar queen! I sat in her many times during that era, along with a hangar queen Spanish 109 in Spanish Civil War markings (as seen in movie Hindenburg).
The CEO of LTV spent some cash and with the LTV retirees built the plane as #13. After the CEO got in trouble for illegal stock trading (Martha Stewart style), I lost track of what happened to #13... Thanks for getting me up to speed!
Cheers,
David Aiken