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Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 1:54:20 AM

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 2:03:32 AM

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Is it the .50cal Mg's on a Brewster Buffalo? If so, maybe Malaya or Burma...?

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 2:04:50 AM

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On second thought, something about the shape of the wing makes me want to say Corsair ... (?)

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 3:59:13 AM

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The wing does look dihedral and there appear to be three guns.

The wing has a serious cross section with ? aluminum supports..it looks modern.

The nose indicate a radial engine.

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 4:47:32 AM

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IMHO that plane is way to big to be a Brewster.

Never was any good at uniforms. Are those Australians? Any chance it could be a Boomerang?

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 6:47:23 AM

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It could be a RNZAF Corsair. The flaps look like it could be a Corsair. The shape of the fuselage doesn't quite look right though.

The armament is wrong for a Boomerang.

The only aircraft with 3X .50s in the wings, especially grouped together in the same bay were American built.

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 7:07:18 AM

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It's a long nose on the 'plane as well, which would point towards a Corsair.

EDIT: I believe that it was fairly common for RNZAF aircraft to have the last three of their serial repeated on the nose and/or tail. NZ5459 matches a batch of numbers that were given to some F4U-1Ds that were taken by the Kiwis.

EDIT 2: I'm obviously a geek when I'm tired...

I should be in bed, instead of googling stuff like this

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 7:45:51 AM

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RAF or RIAF Mohawk

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 11:20:54 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Dixie

It's a long nose on the 'plane as well, which would point towards a Corsair.

EDIT: I believe that it was fairly common for RNZAF aircraft to have the last three of their serial repeated on the nose and/or tail. NZ5459 matches a batch of numbers that were given to some F4U-1Ds that were taken by the Kiwis.

EDIT 2: I'm obviously a geek when I'm tired... I should be in bed, instead of googling stuff like this

Dixie rights.

It is Vought F4U-1D Corsair: serial number 50414 (c/n 5661) to New Zealand as NZ5459.

Source:
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos Third Series (50360 to 60009)

Some info of Corsair:
Vought F4U Corsair - technical data & history
The Vought F4U Corsair - technical data

Interesting sites:
Terry's F4U Corsair References
F4U Corsair - fan site

Article about air war on the Solomons:
Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944 - article

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 12:35:12 PM

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impressive, dixie.

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 9:22:51 PM

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impressive, dixie.

Not really

I had my suspicions, and used t'interweb thingy to (possibly) confirm my thoughts. Probably because I was very, very tired and I didn't realise how tragically geeky I was being

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/26/2008 10:23:31 PM

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You Googlistorian you.....

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/27/2008 12:40:44 AM

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Dixie has much google-foo!

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/27/2008 12:54:22 AM

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RNZAF F4U-1D, it is

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Caption reads:

BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND. 1944-12-23. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN W. FISH AND LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN L.C. INGRAM SHOWING TROOPS OF THE 1ST INDIAN HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT THE MECHANISM OF THE MACHINE GUNS FITTED IN THE WINGS OF A CHANCE-VOUGHT "CORSAIR" FIGHTER AIRCRAFT OF NO. 16 SQUADRON, ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE AT PIVA STRIP. THESE TROOPS WERE CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE IN SINGAPORE IN FEBRUARY 1942. RECENTLY THEY EVADED THEIR GUARDS AND, WITH THE AID OF A FRIENDLY NATIVE MADE THEIR WAY TO THE AUSTRALIAN LINES.

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RE: Name This AE...117 - 10/17/2011 10:11:08 AM

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Great thread! thanks for posting this photo.
It is the plane my Uncle Peter George Moore was killed in in the pacific 1945,he was in the RNZAF.

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