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Name This AE...117
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:54 pm
by Brady
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RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:03 pm
by stevemk1a
Is it the .50cal Mg's on a Brewster Buffalo? If so, maybe Malaya or Burma...?
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:04 pm
by stevemk1a
On second thought, something about the shape of the wing makes me want to say Corsair ... (?)
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:59 am
by Cap Mandrake
The wing does look dihedral and there appear to be three guns.
The wing has a serious cross section with ? aluminum supports..it looks modern.
The nose indicate a radial engine.
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:47 am
by niceguy2005
IMHO that plane is way to big to be a Brewster.
Never was any good at uniforms. Are those Australians? Any chance it could be a Boomerang?
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:47 am
by wdolson
It could be a RNZAF Corsair. The flaps look like it could be a Corsair. The shape of the fuselage doesn't quite look right though.
The armament is wrong for a Boomerang.
The only aircraft with 3X .50s in the wings, especially grouped together in the same bay were American built.
Bill
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:07 am
by Dixie
It's a long nose on the 'plane as well, which would point towards a Corsair.
EDIT: I believe that it was fairly common for RNZAF aircraft to have the last three of their serial repeated on the nose and/or tail. NZ5459 matches a batch of numbers that were given to some F4U-1Ds that were taken by the Kiwis.
EDIT 2: I'm obviously a geek when I'm tired... [:D][:D] I should be in bed, instead of googling stuff like this [8|]
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:45 am
by JeffroK
RAF or RIAF Mohawk
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:20 am
by Vampir
ORIGINAL: Dixie
It's a long nose on the 'plane as well, which would point towards a Corsair.
EDIT: I believe that it was fairly common for RNZAF aircraft to have the last three of their serial repeated on the nose and/or tail. NZ5459 matches a batch of numbers that were given to some F4U-1Ds that were taken by the Kiwis.
EDIT 2: I'm obviously a geek when I'm tired... [:D][:D] I should be in bed, instead of googling stuff like this [8|]
Dixie rights. [:D] It is Vought F4U-1D Corsair: serial number 50414 (c/n 5661) to New Zealand as NZ5459.
Source:
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos Third Series (50360 to 60009)
Some info of Corsair:
Vought F4U Corsair - technical data & history
The Vought F4U Corsair - technical data
Interesting sites:
Terry's F4U Corsair References
F4U Corsair - fan site
Article about air war on the Solomons:
Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944 - article
[:)]
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:35 am
by bigbaba
impressive, dixie.
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:22 pm
by Dixie
ORIGINAL: bigbaba
impressive, dixie.
Not really [:D] I had my suspicions, and used t'interweb thingy to (possibly) confirm my thoughts. Probably because I was very, very tired and I didn't realise how tragically geeky I was being [;)][:D][:D]
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:23 pm
by Mynok
You Googlistorian you.....[:D]
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:40 pm
by USSAmerica
Dixie has much google-foo! [&o][:D]
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:54 pm
by Brady
RNZAF F4U-1D, it is[:)]
.............
Caption reads:
BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND. 1944-12-23. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN W. FISH AND LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN L.C. INGRAM SHOWING TROOPS OF THE 1ST INDIAN HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT THE MECHANISM OF THE MACHINE GUNS FITTED IN THE WINGS OF A CHANCE-VOUGHT "CORSAIR" FIGHTER AIRCRAFT OF NO. 16 SQUADRON, ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE AT PIVA STRIP. THESE TROOPS WERE CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE IN SINGAPORE IN FEBRUARY 1942. RECENTLY THEY EVADED THEIR GUARDS AND, WITH THE AID OF A FRIENDLY NATIVE MADE THEIR WAY TO THE AUSTRALIAN LINES.
RE: Name This AE...117
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:11 am
by LutherMoore
Great thread! thanks for posting this photo.
It is the plane my Uncle Peter George Moore was killed in in the pacific 1945,he was in the RNZAF.
Luther.