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Ah, a Goodyear then. You probably know of Dana's books:

http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Pictoria ... =Dana+Bell

http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Pictoria ... 160%2C160_

But, we digress . . . .

Interesting, I never noticed how far back the pilot sat in a Corsair!!!

Badanovski wrote:Interesting, I never noticed how far back the pilot sat in a Corsair!!!

Yes, and the Navy found that to be a real problem in landing them on a carrier. Eventually, they developed a banking left circuit approach that afforded the pilot better visibility of the deck until just before landing. Vought took that objection to heart, and You can see in Vought's later designs (F6U Pirate, F7U Cutlass, and F8U Crusader) that the cockpit is much farther forward than any of their contemporaries

After futzing with the hairpin rods I got them working correctly. The rod on the bass side was just a bit twisted. The neck is now almost perfectly straight.

bassduke49 wrote:Ah, a Goodyear then. You probably know of Dana's books:

http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Pictoria ... =Dana+Bell

http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Pictoria ... 160%2C160_

But, we digress . . . .

Yeah...off topic again....

I have only seen them listed for sale, I have never been able to look through one. Somewhere, I have a pic of the Vought plant at Bridgeport, off my wing of the B-17 as I circled. Its still there, and the Atlantic FBO Hangar on the field is the old Vought completion hangar. The Goodyear Corsair hangar at Akron is still there too. We stored all the airshow planes (I was flying the PBY) in it for Wx on Fri. during the '08 show.
If you have the 'Squadron Signal' PBY Catalina Walk Around (second version) most all of the airborne shots are me flying the Military Aviation Museums, Cat. Taken at Reading, PA in '07 after the airshow.

Glad to know the truss rod is corrected!

bassduke49 wrote:
So if anyone needs to know about the paint colors used on the interior surfaces of the Vought F4U-1 Corsair back in the '40s

Zinc chromate?

Colonel Sanders wrote:

bassduke49 wrote:
So if anyone needs to know about the paint colors used on the interior surfaces of the Vought F4U-1 Corsair back in the '40s

Zinc chromate?

Well, it all depends on what part of the interior, when it was painted, and at what factory. Dana has it all figured out. Some internal structures were painted with a salmon-colored primer.

But we are WAAAY off topic now.

bassduke49 wrote:

Colonel Sanders wrote:

bassduke49 wrote:
So if anyone needs to know about the paint colors used on the interior surfaces of the Vought F4U-1 Corsair back in the '40s

Zinc chromate?

Well, it all depends on what part of the interior, when it was painted, and at what factory. Dana has it all figured out. Some internal structures were painted with a salmon-colored primer.

But we are WAAAY off topic now.

Perhaps not. Are there any places on the F4U-1 that may have used those particular nuts as used for those truss rods?

Good save, Jeff

Not THOSE particular nuts, they'd quit making F4U's long before those nuts were made...