"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/04/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/04/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan | 4
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It’s Tuesday, Oppo. Time to gear up and get going.
This morning we have what looks like a factory fresh Vought F4U-1 Corsair, identifiable by the early “birdcage” canopy. The F4U-1A introduced a taller canopy with just two frames, while the single-piece “blown” clear-view canopy didn’t show up until the F4U-1D in April 1944. The early blue over grey camouflage pattern, and the plain white star roundel, lacking bars on either side, place this aircraft sometime between May 1942 and June 1943.
Hudson Hawkish
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 09:07 |
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Baa-baa Black Sheep!
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ttyymmnn
> Hudson Hawkish
08/04/2020 at 09:15 |
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Hollywood vs Reality: Robert Conrad as Pappy Boyington on the left, the real Pappy Boyington on the right.
vondon302
> Hudson Hawkish
08/04/2020 at 09:20 |
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Came to say this.
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Hudson Hawkish
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 09:27 |
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He was pretty short too...
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ttyymmnn
> Hudson Hawkish
08/04/2020 at 09:29 |
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Yup.
Darkbrador
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 09:42 |
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The same guys together.
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ttyymmnn
> Darkbrador
08/04/2020 at 09:48 |
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The real Greg Boyington did not have a Hollywood face.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 09:54 |
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Just dropped in to say hi.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7248224/nelson-bc-crash-landing-supermarket/
user314
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 10:00 |
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Boy, you aren’t kidding about “factory fresh”. No unit markings, not even a BuNo on t he tail.
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ttyymmnn
> This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
08/04/2020 at 10:03 |
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Just got to pick up a few things...
InFierority Complex
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 10:17 |
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https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/last-piston-engine-dogfights-180956250/
The last piston engine dogfight had both sides flying Corsairs as late as 1969. Kinda crazy.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 10:26 |
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Not a hollywood kind of face u
nless that hollywood face is Norm Grabowski. Norm, who should be noted, came into Hollywood from outside, and even at that might have been prettier (in a Big Polish Lunkhead sort of way) than Boyington.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/04/2020 at 10:30 |
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Hollywood always needs a Joe Palooka. Looks like he was quite the gearhead.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 10:38 |
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Started a whole hot rod recipe, popularized skull shift-knobs, swung on his car’s stardom to show up as a memorable mook opposite Dean Jones and Tommy Kirk - I have to say he’s a true American original.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> ttyymmnn
08/04/2020 at 10:40 |
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My all-time fav WW2 fighter. I fly out of Sikorsky Airport in Stratford CT where they were built. They’re restoring an FG-1D from San Salvador that sat on a pole as a gate guard there for many years. Still in progress.
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
08/04/2020 at 10:41 |
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Canada huh? Guaranteed the first thing the pilot after getting out was apologize profusely.