![]() For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page. Usage Conditions May Apply Usage Conditions Apply There are restrictions for re-using this media. Your support will help fund exhibitions, educational programming, and preservation efforts.īecome a member Wall of Honor Ways to give Host an Event Programs Learning resources Plan a field trip Educator professional development Education monthly theme Stories Topics Collections On demand For researchersīring the Air and Space Museum to your learners, wherever you are. National Air and Space Museum in DC Udvar-Hazy Center in VA Plan a field trip Plan a group visitĭiscover our exhibitions and participate in programs both in person or virtually.īrowse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. Based on the position of the letter S on the rudder, my best guess is that the tailcode is WS, which would be VMF-323 on Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) in late 1950 or (more likely) Sicily (CVE-118) in 1951.Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. There wouldn't have been an F4U in a transport (VR) squadron so RS is not the correct tailcode for the Corsair. Maybe Turtle might know? Neat photo, though!Īll I can say for sure is that the Avengers are TBM-3Rs (CODs) not -3Es, which makes it the Korean War era. BTW, in 1948, USB/USMC tail codes were no longer associated with an individual aircraft carrier, but a carrier air group, so I can't tell you on which carrier the posted photo was taken. The RZ TBM tailcode was for VR-21, and what is most likely an RS tailcode on the Corsair was for VR-5, both squadron codes being allocated in 1948. 50 cal guns as seen on the upside-down Corsair would make it an early production F4U-4. I think you are correct, and this photo depicts a postwar carrier op, as the Avengers on the deck appear to be TBM-3E's, which were not used in WW2 you can see the prop on the RH Corsair with the xS tailcode has a four bladed prop, and the six. I think Dana Bell's data are more recent, so I'd probably go with white for the main wells. So there's disagreement as to the wheel well color, at least the top surface, between white and YZC. Generally the tail wheel doors are White inside and out but could be Zinc Chromate Yellow." Inside the fuselage above the Tail Wheel Zinc Chromate Yellow. Rarely Interior Green or Interior Green with White overspray. Main gear wells were still camouflaged, while the after well was generally not." For most interior surfaces, Vought, Brewster, and Goodyear received permission to apply one or two coats of untinted zinc chromate (yellow) primer - not Interior Green. "In spring 1943 (as production was shifting to the "-1A"), the Navy ordered manufacturers to discontinue use of Salmon and Dull Dark Green as soon as existing stocks were depleted - for the Corsair this seems to have happened sometime in the summer of 1943. I've checked my SAM publication on the Corsair (MDF 18) and pics of preserved examples in the US show white being used for the wheel wells, oleos and undercarriage door inners (including the tail wheel doors) but as museum pieces don't always get it right can I safely assume this to be correct? Other pics in this book show chromate/zinc yellow primer being used in the gun bays, engine cowling/bay and inner tail section, with interior green for the cockpit all of which I'd expected. Some suggest that all would be in the external colour, so white in this instance, yet others refer to the use of chromate yellow unless it compromised the underside colour? However after searching this site via Google and also referring to an article on interiors colours in the October 1981 edition of SAM I'm slightly confused about the correct colours for the wheel wells, engine cowling, oleos and the internal sides of the undercarriage doors. The kit itself has two decal options, one for a Marine Corps unit in December 1943 and the other a Navy unit in February 1944, one of which I will be using, and both have the same colour scheme shown which has a mixture of white with blue/grey outer wings panels for the undersides. One of my next projects will be the Revell 72nd scale F4U-1A Corsair which, whilst not as fine as the Tamiya equivalent, looks to be a good kit and at less than half the cost of the latter.
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