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I think this was the original:
I reckon that is the Vought Pirate Carson, though I've only seen photo's from underneath it before (so at least it flew!)![]()
I think this was the original:
G'day Verner.
Your photo depicts a Naval Air Test Centre (NATC) Pirate, No.122481, which was used as an electronics test aircraft at Patuxent N.A.S. in August 1950 and accumulated 68 hours before being retired in November 1950 with a total time of 77 hours. The "properties" of the photograph are wrong, it's not an XF6U-1 but a production F6U-1.
Here's the family...
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Help needed please..
Do help me identify the stubby US navy fighter as per pic attached.
Thanks very much
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Is this a replica from the movie made in the studios?
Yes. From the Movie "Flight of the Phoenix." There were two flying props made. One for the ground, take-off and low flying shots which was made by Tallmantz Inc. and was a hodgepodge of various aircraft parts...
...and the other, made for a high flying scene at the end of the movie, was a butchered North American O-47...
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What about trying to identify my post #2988 of Apr. 23?
Carson, do you know the answer or are you looking for an answer?
No, I don't know the answer I'm looking for one.....![]()
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carson1934
Now in googling thru the Wellington websites I read more than once that such a prototype was the Wellington Mark VII.
OK thanks it's all clear nowThen we're stuffed. Unless you can retrace your steps and provide more clues, the site and the "environment" (eg, pre-war British Ultralights) in which you were looking when you found it, then it's going to be difficult unless someone instantly recognises it.
I'm trying to retrace my steps. For the time being I know that this ultralight was built in the mid thirties and only one prototype flew though the original idea was of producing a large quantity.
I'll try to recover name and company.
carson1934
From what I've read Carson no true Mk.VII was ever built. There was one Mk.II that was intended for conversion to Mk.VII standard but in the end became a test-bed for the Rolls-Royce Merlin 60. The contract for 150 examples was cancelled at an early stage.
L4250, the first MK.II prototype was subjected to many armament trials...
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