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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: No.1 on March 14, 2009, 01:02:40 PM

Title: Cannon powered Corsair
Post by: No.1 on March 14, 2009, 01:02:40 PM

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Warplane/Vought-F4U-1C-with-20mm.jpg)

Title: Re: Cannon powered Corsair
Post by: Letipapa on March 14, 2009, 03:46:44 PM

Wait a minute. How, cannon powered? :-think. Could it be that You meant cannon armed? :-think

Title: Re: Cannon powered Corsair
Post by: Nico Braas on March 14, 2009, 04:01:09 PM

Letipapa, you 'blocked' my reply while I was sending it!

Since I provided this nice shot I can give the following details:
Photo is an original Chance Vought press release of 5 April 1945.
Text attached reads:
'More firepower to Blast the Japs: a Chance Vought F4U-1C Corsair, of the type so successfully from carrier and shore bases by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps fliers, is shown here with four 20 mm cannon, two in each wing. A number of cannon-firing Corsairs are in combat, while others continue to move from Chance Vought assembly lines equippped with the conventional six .50 caliber machine guns.'

Title: Re: Cannon powered Corsair
Post by: Letipapa on March 14, 2009, 04:10:12 PM

Oh! Well now it's all clear. For the moment I thought that No1 made a small mistake, or that I went crazy, :-green
Thanks for this explanation Nico. :-flo :-wave