This is a repair video from a big mistake I made mixing up footage from too many museum visits lately. I have re-made my recent Seattle Corsair movie. The labour strike has locked us out for over six months now, doesn't look like any work until next year. I have so much data that I mixed up some airplane notes. My passion is to visit aircraft and discover their individual history. My travelling visits create research projects that begin when I get the serial numbers off airplane that I see. It's my version of live history. Perhaps my favourite ever is visiting BALLS EIGHT at Edwards AFB.
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I have been there twice now. The visits have created endless research as I attempt to learn all that she has done. I'm not finished yet and I will visit her again. Plus Edwards is building a huge museum just outside the west gate, should be finished soon.
So anyhow this beautiful airplane was recovered from the bottom of Lake Washington in 1983. I put a picture of it at the very end of this show. It is one of the 4007 Corsairs built by Goodyear during WW2. The Corsair was designed by Vought and a total of 12,571 were built from 1939 to 1953. This one was built for the US Navy with serial number 88382 in 1945. It served stateside and suffered a non-fatal mid air collision with another Corsair in 1950. Looking at the 1983 recovery photo, there does not seem to be that much airframe damage except maybe the left wingtip. However, the three blade prop is missing two blades so I suspect buddy tagged the other Corsair with his prop and that was the end of flying for the day.