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Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 2:19:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		The other day I went to the local air museum as there was a Corsair there for the week. I've attatched a pic here, it is painted up as Lt Robert Hampton Gray's Royal Navy Corsair IV. While I was there I shot some pics of an Anson and a Mosquito bomber. Later this summer I plan on traveling to three other Museums in the Province to see the following WWII aircraft. I hope that the pics attatched properly!
Lancaster Bomber
Seafire
Hurricane
Lysander
Swordfish
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 2:22:19 AM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 2:58:17 AM   
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On this day (9th August) in 1945, Lt Robert H. Gray, R.C.N.V.R., attacked the IJN escort Amakusa with his Corsair – sinking her with a 500-lb bomb. He was then brought down by heavy AA and killed. For his bravery in pressing home a low-level attack in the face of heavy fire he was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. He was one of the last Canadians to be killed in the war.


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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 3:41:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Is that a -1 or a -4?  The canopy is consistent with a late -1 or -4.  The cockpit looks like it could be a -1.  Did it have a three or four bladed prop?

Nicely restored in any case.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 3:50:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not sure what specific type of Corsair this particular aircraft was, however it did have a three bladed prop. That is why I wrote painted as, I was curious if it was an actual IV or not. I did rather enjoy watching it fly into town though!




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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 3:55:53 AM   
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ORIGINAL: J Boomer

I'm not sure what specific type of Corsair this particular aircraft was, however it did have a three bladed prop. That is why I wrote painted as, I was curious if it was an actual IV or not. I did rather enjoy watching it fly into town though!






Thanks so much for sharing. Didn't know about this one......She is beautiful!!!!!!

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 6:55:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's a -1, a -1d to be precise.  It has the hard points for rockets and drop tanks/bombs.  The canopy also has minimal bracing, which was introduced with the last few -1as.  The -1 had a three bladed prop and no cockpit floor.  The cockpit picture you showed did look like a -1 cockpit, but I wasn't 100% sure.  The -4 had a more powerful version of the P&W 2800 engine that required going to a 4 bladed prop.  Vought also finally started putting cockpit floors in them starting with the -4.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 7:43:19 AM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 8:07:19 PM   
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On this day (9th August) in 1945, Lt Robert H. Gray, R.C.N.V.R., attacked the IJN escort Amakusa with his Corsair – sinking her with a 500-lb bomb. He was then brought down by heavy AA and killed. For his bravery in pressing home a low-level attack in the face of heavy fire he was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. He was one of the last Canadians to be killed in the war.

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and only the second Fleet Air Arm V.C of World War II (the other being Eugene Esmonde for leading the attack against the Scharnhorst in the English Channel).

Great pictures J Boomer - thanks for sharing

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/9/2010 11:52:33 PM   
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The most difficult in the war.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 4:14:04 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 5:23:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		What a beauty!

Here's a youtube of "Whistling Death" if anyone wants sights and sounds.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 9:06:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		One thing that surprised me seeing one at an air show was how quite it was in fly bys. It was so quite I mistook it's nick name as "whispering death."

Hey post those Mosquito photos if you can. That's another favorite of mine.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 9:16:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Could this be the Corsair that usually resides at the Olympia Flight Museum? If so it is an FG1D per their web page.
http://www.olympicflightmuseum.com/collection-FG1DCorsair.php

They still have a movie Zero (AT-6 Texan) from Tora Tora Tora, (with flashing gun lights i recall) which can be seen in the back ground of their virtual tour.

I will admit I have not been back there for several years though.




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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 9:36:22 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:50:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wasn't able to take great photos of the Mosquito. However here they are.




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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:50:55 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:52:07 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:54:19 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:54:57 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 10:58:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		As for the Corsair, I believe that it is this one.

F4U-4B c/n 9513 Bu.97359 (N240CA), ex-Fleet Air Arm (not delivered) ex-VF-44 "F 112" - USS Boxer, SOC: 1959, TV: Baa Baa Blacksheep, "LF 11" Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau Airport, Quebec, Canada (A)[58][59][60]

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 11:09:51 PM   
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I wasn't able to take great photos of the Mosquito. However here they are.





Nice picture of the business end!! Couldn't they have mounted a couple more guns and cannons up there.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/10/2010 11:35:20 PM   
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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/11/2010 1:48:14 AM   
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As for the Corsair, I believe that it is this one.

F4U-4B c/n 9513 Bu.97359 (N240CA), ex-Fleet Air Arm (not delivered) ex-VF-44 "F 112" - USS Boxer, SOC: 1959, TV: Baa Baa Blacksheep, "LF 11" Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau Airport, Quebec, Canada (A)[58][59][60]


It can't be that one, it's a -1d not a -4. I think it's likely the Olympic Air Museum's bird.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/11/2010 3:55:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, you know more about the subject than I do, however I was told at the Museum that it was canadian owned and the tail was painted to mark the 100th Anniversery of the Canadian navy. The next time I pop by the Museum I'll ask more specific questions about it as you now have me curious. That being said how many Corsairs can be painted up in the that config? I'll let you know what I find out if you are interested.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/11/2010 4:06:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well I just took a closer look at one of the pics I didn't post and the plain has FG1D painted on the tail, so the two of you must be correct.

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RE: Corsair Pictures - 8/11/2010 12:39:37 PM   
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