Monday, March 29, 2010

Wellington Aero Club Open Day 2010 #17: Goodyear FG-1D Corsair - post 2 of 2

Here are some of my favourite Corsair pictures. The start-up of these older engines is always impressive ["smokey" :-)], and in this case almost half the plane disappears in the smoke.

After this are a couple of shots of the wings being lowered [now might be a good time to see how little metal appears to hold those wings on!], followed by taxi then departure.

2 comments:

Hindsfeet said...

cool stuff, Rodney!

Hey, thought you might get a kick outta this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr2ZB36p9Y

and this

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/test/archives/2007/articles/jan_07/cockpits/cockpits.html

(in the second link there, click on any plane and it shows you it's cockpit...pretty cool)

enjoy! : )

Rodney said...

Hello Hindsfeet,

Thanks :-) Nice!

Rodney