Marine's Dream

[Roadkingtrax]

A salvage crew lifts F4U-1 #576 (BuNo 02576) "Marine's Dream" upright after a landing accident on Torokina in December 1943. Captain Ed Olander used this Corsair to destroy a Mitsubishi Zero on 17 October 1943.

More Corsair than M1, but the last shot makes up for it.

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[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

That hurts. Probably my favorite Allied WWII aircraft.

[Bob Seijas]

Local story about a guy who bought a wreck, spent a lot of money restoring it at Caldwell Wright. When it was finally ready, he taxied out and poured the coals to it. Unfortunately, he didn't appreciate the enormous torque that giant engine generated... it flipped and burned to the ground.

[garrettbragg12]

I have a model of her in 1:18 I believe by 21st century. It's a shame to hear she made it post war without being scrapped only to hear that she burnt down in the hands of a collector..

[CINDERS]

Yes the F4U was a cracker bit like the Tiffie and Tempest all in their own field I think the 4U had the highest kill rate V Corsair loss, buuutt from my crane experience the 1st pic is what happened when the aircraft flipped right side up pivoted on the prop boss and that's why it is against the crane rig.
And to make matters worse the port wheel is on the left side below chassis level of the crane so pretty tricky to get out of that one........... as I do not think that rig is a slewer could be wrong

Has the P-38 they found in Iceland flown yet I had heard it had, I saw the doco on it ages ago when they fired the 20mm after all that time in the ice apparently they had moved a long way down the ice has anyone got the name of the doco as I would like to watch it again

[jmoore]

Has the P-38 they found in Iceland flown yet I had heard it had

Yes, quite a while back now. Don't know the current status. "Glacier Gal". We had the tail section in our shop for rebuild in the early '90s. Stoutly built, but cramped. Lockheed hired little people (midgets back then), to do riveting in the tail cones, etc.!

BTW, Corsairs flipping is a tradition that carries on. One apparently in GA. very recently, but not too much damage from what I heard in the early reports.

[Bob Womack]

Cheer up. This guy lives right down the road from me:



Bob

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Nothing compairs with the sound of that giant raidial engine in flight.

[CINDERS]

Nothing compairs with the sound of that giant raidial engine in flight.

I reckon a Merlin sounds pretty schmick like the P-51 with its Allison was a bit of a flop so they popped in a Merlin a mid fuselage tank and presto a true long rang killer.

When the Brits trialled the P-38 the USA sent them without the superchargers such was their lack of performance they were nick named the Castrated Lightnings.
Then compressibility crept in, dive flaps were utilised to correct it after a number of deaths then the ship carrying the flaps for the mod was sunk causing a hiatus.
But with what 4 x 50 cal and a 20mm in the nose gads what fire power there was to be a 37mm but this was abandoned for the 20mm

[browningautorifle]

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...8corsair-1.jpg

We had one show up here in Victoria a few years ago and I was found among the many that was forced to attend it...wouldn't have missed an up close with it either...