Smithsonian: Udvar-Hazy

As for the flight in the harvard, you get yourself out here to Colorado, gang, and I can guarantee you I Can get you up in a T-6 for an hour for $100 and the pilot will let you take the stick if you want…we also have a 2 seat P-51 and Sea Fury if you want to go that route, don’t know the prices. Think of it, winging your way over the majestic Colorado Rocky Mountains, snow capped peaks of 14,000 feet height….

Mark

Ah, my old Corsair friend ‘Sun Setter’ , a name which they appear to have removed from when I last saw her…she looks good, but the flaps aren’t all the way down, just slightly…she would look good with the canopy cracked and a fake pilot in her seat with his arm on the rail…still, she looks terrific. I would’nt worry too much about the stress on the airframe, remember this is an aircraft made to haul 4,000 lbs of bombs, rockets, guns, and was used to having whole squadrons of men standing on her wings for group photos…I reckon she can handle it. If memory serves, this Corsair is a combat vet from the Marianas, right out of a squadron called ‘The Sunsetters’ (a way of referring to the imminent setting of the Rising Sun, aka Japan?). Can’t wait to get back to Washington and seeing the new museum and the Enola Gay, which looks reat from the pics I’ve seen of it…

Mark

Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
hopefully I can get there one day, however it may be a few years away yet.

It’s cheaper to fly BA to Washington than it is for a hour in a Harvard!

Originally posted by Mike J
Maybe a rare prototype of a Corsair pilotless drone? 😀

Perhaps it would have looked better with a pilot figure in the cockpit

I think if I were in an aircraft which was about to spread itself across a carrier deck I would opt to get out of the thing and let it take it’s own chance of landing.

Looks an interesting museum, hopefully I can get there one day, however it may be a few years away yet.

Originally posted by Ant Harrington
I can see your point about the dangling legs Daz,but if you look closely the flaps and arrester hook are also down and the rudder is deflected slightly to port.My guess is that it’s supposed to look as though it’s turning onto finals for a carrier landing.

Ahhh yeah, never thought of that!

If it’s gonna dangle, at least put a bod in the office!

I can see your point about the dangling legs Daz,but if you look closely the flaps and arrester hook are also down and the rudder is deflected slightly to port.My guess is that it’s supposed to look as though it’s turning onto finals for a carrier landing.
I’m no expert on stringing aircraft up,but I can’t imagine an organisation like the NASM would string an aircraft up without doing some stress calculations.I hope not anyway…:confused:

IMO the Corsair looks a bit silly with its bits hanging down when strung up!

Have another.

I hope it’s not compulsory to wear suits there!

So who is going to tell me that displaying an aircraft like that is reducing the stress on the airframe?

DOUGHNUT