http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/01/04/flightdeck-friday-goodyear-f2g-corsair Looking for clues at the scene of the crime Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/01/04/flightdeck-friday-goodyear-f2g-corsair/comment-page-1#comment-1334 Steeljawscribe Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:30:44 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/01/04/flightdeck-friday-goodyear-f2g-corsair/#comment-1334 Oh, and Vmax -- you'll find we are unrepentant and unabashed fans of props and radials 'round these parts... :wink: - SJS Oh, and Vmax — you’ll find we are unrepentant and unabashed fans of props and radials ’round these parts…
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]]> http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/01/04/flightdeck-friday-goodyear-f2g-corsair/comment-page-1#comment-1333 Steeljawscribe Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:28:17 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/01/04/flightdeck-friday-goodyear-f2g-corsair/#comment-1333 Came across a book by Frank Tallman in the nether regions of my library this weekend ("Flying the Old Planes") and there was a chapter on flying an FG Corsair he'd recovered from a bone/scrapyard (it was in better shape than the two F4U-4's next to it). Besides having a ton of leg room (he loved how you could let your feet dangle in the rudder tracks) he also said the Pratt & Whitney was every bit as fluid and smooth as a RR Merlin and that the Corsair was one of his favorites. High praise from someone as accomplished as he with the kind of logbook he had... - SJS Came across a book by Frank Tallman in the nether regions of my library this weekend (“Flying the Old Planes”) and there was a chapter on flying an FG Corsair he’d recovered from a bone/scrapyard (it was in better shape than the two F4U-4′s next to it). Besides having a ton of leg room (he loved how you could let your feet dangle in the rudder tracks) he also said the Pratt & Whitney was every bit as fluid and smooth as a RR Merlin and that the Corsair was one of his favorites. High praise from someone as accomplished as he with the kind of logbook he had…
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