Marine's Dream

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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

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[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