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Title: F-4U recovered
Post by: W7LPNRICK on January 17, 2011, 02:02:39 PM: <object height="394" width="448"><param name="movie" value="http://www.nbcchicago.com/syndication?id=106928538&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat"/><embed src="http://www.nbcchicago.com/syndication?id=106928538&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" height="394" width="448"></embed><p style="font-size:small">View more news videos at: [url=http://www.nbcchicago.com/video?__source=embedCode]http://www.nbcchicago.com/video (http://<object height="394" width="448"><param name="movie" value="http://www.nbcchicago.com/syndication?id=106928538&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat"/><embed src="http://www.nbcchicago.com/syndication?id=106928538&path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" height="394" width="448"></embed><p style="font-size:small">View more news videos at: <a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/video?__source=embedCode">http://www.nbcchicago.com/video</a>.</p></object>).</p></object>[/url]
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: Babalonian on January 17, 2011, 03:03:16 PM: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/corsair-lake-michigan-waukegan-106904213.html

There we go.
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: Spork on January 17, 2011, 03:29:20 PM: Quote from: Babalonian on January 17, 2011, 03:03:16 PM
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/corsair-lake-michigan-waukegan-106904213.html

There we go.

That's really neat. I still can't believe that they used cloth coverings for the fuselage as late as 1943.
Thanks for sharing. :salute

Spork
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: MarineUS on January 17, 2011, 04:32:32 PM: That is amazing! Thanks for posting :D :aok
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: Guppy35 on January 17, 2011, 06:30:22 PM: Happened a while ago. It's already at the Museum in pieces waiting its turn for restoration. The model junkies are having a field day with the Salmon primer color.
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: Bino on January 21, 2011, 12:16:53 PM: Quote from: Babalonian on January 17, 2011, 03:03:16 PM
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/corsair-lake-michigan-waukegan-106904213.html

From the - moronic - NBC Chicago page:

"...And despite the fact that much of the aircraft was covered in fabric, not metal, a great deal of the skin was intact and the insignia was still visible..."

Fabric. Riiiiight. <facepalm>
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: JOACH1M on January 21, 2011, 01:49:18 PM: There's LOTS MORE where that corsair came from, lots more
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: W7LPNRICK on January 23, 2011, 02:10:51 PM: Quote from: Spork on January 17, 2011, 03:29:20 PM
That's really neat. I still can't believe that they used cloth coverings for the fuselage as late as 1943.
Thanks for sharing. :salute

Spork

When I went in the service in 1977 they still trained parachute riggers to repair aircraft fabric skins. We still had a couple light observation aircraft with fabric. I think USAF OE-1/L-19 Bird Dog. [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-1_Bird_Dog[/url]
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: Wmaker on January 23, 2011, 02:22:48 PM: Quote from: Bino on January 21, 2011, 12:16:53 PM
From the - moronic - NBC Chicago page:

"...And despite the fact that much of the aircraft was covered in fabric, not metal, a great deal of the skin was intact and the insignia was still visible..."

Fabric. Riiiiight. <facepalm>

What is "much" and what is not can be debated but there actually is quite a bit of fabric covering in the outer wings of the wartime Corsairs.
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: mtnman on January 23, 2011, 09:36:03 PM: Quote from: Wmaker on January 23, 2011, 02:22:48 PM
What is "much" and what is not can be debated but there actually is quite a bit of fabric covering in the outer wings of the wartime Corsairs.

Yup, and the rudder and elevators; even the outer flaps, I think.
Title: Re: F-4U recovered
Post by: W7LPNRICK on January 23, 2011, 10:31:11 PM: There was good sound reasoning for making these fabric. They repair in minutes vs hours, Light weight so the pedals/stick is not fighting added weight, & bent metal along with air resistance. :old: