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The F4U Corsair is one of my favs too. My dad flew the Corsair in Korea with the Checkerboard Squadron. Looking through his log books I discovered that flew many planes, but his favorite was most certainly the Corsair. Here's a pic of my dad back in the day. |
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The irony is that in 1943-44 the F4U was kept off carriers because of "lack of carrier suitability." That changed in 1945 and by the Korean war period, the Marines, such as your dad, operated F4Us off of smaller carriers (USS Bataan CVL 29 in your photo) and even smaller escort carriers (CVEs). The F4U stayed in the fleet until past the end of the Korean war before finally being replaced by jets.
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Sometime in the late '50's or early '60's two F-8's landed at our local airport because they were getting low on fuel. The first pilot set the main wheels on the ground and just short of the runway. We could later see the missing strips of grass. No harm to the landing gear and he got the big jet safely stopped before going off the end of the runway.
The second pilot managed to set his F-8 right on the approach end of the runway, but in his excitement, locked up the brakes and blew the left tire. This caused the airplane to veer slowly to the left and off the runway. Hours later a big crew of Navy guys showed up with some heavy equipment, changing the blown tire. Both aircraft sat on the ramp overnight, much to the excitement of the locals. Both aircraft were refueled and left the next day. I can still remember the loud roar - so unusual for our little airport. Since the F-8 with the blown tire went off into the mud, it flew away without retracting the landing gear. I remember seeing that from our house as well. I imagine those 2 pilots had some 'splaining to do back at their home base (probably Lemore).
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IIRC, until sometime in the 80's, jets had to have at least one "dirty" engine so they could be seen by slower aircraft easier. This was before all the controlled airspace around airports (and above FL180 [roughly 18K feet]). I had a coworker call traffic on a DC8 once and the pilot said all he could see was smoke. In typical controller fashion (when we could get away with such things) he said to "follow the smoke there's a DC8 at the end of it."
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A great shot of an F-4 Phantom in the vertical. Two 370-(US)gallon underwing fuel tanks but no armament. What a beast!
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