Aircraft pics

[SS427]

Here is a local Corsair owned by a customer of mine. It is a beautiful restoration but I have yet to see it fly.

[SS427]

I just recently found out that David Gilmour used to own and fly this P51D aptly named "Comfortably Numb". I have followed Pink Floyd and David for years and never knew....

[PeteLeathersac]

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Awesome stuff and love Corsairs too, thanks for giving this thread a much needed kick!

~ Pete

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[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[SS427]

Here is the famous "Yippee" in full color. Hard to miss her!

[m22mike]

Pete
Like your flight of Corsairs I have a bunce I can bore you with. I have been digging up some history on the Goodyear built F2G's with the R4360.

Rick
I knew you would come through

[m22mike]

Army AP2E


-- As if it was pulled out of a scene from a James Bond movie complete with covert ops and spy planes, one Army Aviation aircraft played a vital role as the eyes and ears over the skies of Vietnam
Back during the Vietnam War, the Army Security Agency basically ran an operation where they were using U-8 [Seminole} aircraft to monitor low-power radio transmissions and other signals -- it was a very covert program," he said. "This program was designed to listen for communications in the field to determine what the enemy was doing and be able to monitor that without them knowing it."

Since the Army didn't have a large, fixed-wing aircraft of its own, it eventually turned to the Navy, which had been operating P-2 Neptunes for some time as long-range, anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
In 1966, it was decided that the Navy would give the Army 12 P-2s that would be retrofitted to fit the Army's needs, and they were designated AP-2 Neptunes in the Army inventory.