F4U-1 Corsair In Color

F4U-1 in color folding wings and in flight.

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Science & Technology

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• F4U
• Corsair
• fighter
• aircraft
• WWII
• Aviation
• flying
• plane
• warfare
• airplane
• color
• war
• World
• War
• II
• Fixed-wing Aircraft
• Change
• Fly
• Vought
• Pacific
• Japanese

[Author109]

Early F4Us sported the non-gloss lighter colors.

[demort71]

Thanks for this vintage color film of the Corsair! Super!

[snakestomper]

Dauntless's and the first two proudction batches of wildcats did not have folding wings and some of the japanese planes like the B5N torpedo bomber(kate) and it's replacement the B6N (jill) had folding wings,where the A6M's (zero) and D3A( val) had folding wing tips,but the val's replacement the D4A(grace) had folding wings

[4thstooge]

The British actually "clipped" the wings on the Corsairs they had, so they would fit in the smaller hanger decks of the British carriers

[livadi9]

BAsically all carrier-planes had folding wings

[SHRIKE427]

four or five... possible more...

[wezza36]

yeah they all had folding wings, shame about the sea fury crash at duxford airshow a few years ago tho :(

, and the marks of seafire with contra-rotating props as well :D

[wezza36]

quite alot did, TBM avengers, TBD dauntless dive bombers, Devestator torpedo bombers, Widcat/hellcat/bearcat, sea fury's etc.. :)

[itshammer]

beautiful bird

[dhymers]

And the SeaFury, look that up, its awesome.

[dhymers]

Wildcats, Dauntless, Hellcats I'm pretty sure they all had folding wings, the British had the Seafire, a spitfire with arresting hook and folding wings.