And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
One of four surviving flyable F-3F-2s in existence, this one lives on at the Greatest Generation Naval Museum in Carlsbad CA. The last production biplane fighter in US service, all were pulled prior to 1941, and used only for training through 1943. The F-3F was Grumman's predecessor to their wildly successful single-wing Grumman F-4F, one of the deadliest and most successful naval fighters ever fielded.
Of this one is at Carlsbad, a sister aircraft (identically marked) is in Colorado Springs at the National Museum of WWII Aviation. Actually it's across the ramp at Westpac finishing up an annual. It will be flying during the Air show in September. Boat Guy
Gonna check the BuNo. Take a day or so. They are improperly marked as well. The Felix insignia is not VF-6 and the -6 aircraft should have only the bottom of the nacelle in red. Boat Guy
One of four surviving flyable F-3F-2s in existence, this one lives on at the Greatest Generation Naval Museum in Carlsbad CA. The last production biplane fighter in US service, all were pulled prior to 1941, and used only for training through 1943. The F-3F was Grumman's predecessor to their wildly successful single-wing Grumman F-4F, one of the deadliest and most successful naval fighters ever fielded.
ReplyDeleteHate to land it on pavement.
ReplyDeleteOf this one is at Carlsbad, a sister aircraft (identically marked) is in Colorado Springs at the National Museum of WWII Aviation.
ReplyDeleteActually it's across the ramp at Westpac finishing up an annual. It will be flying during the Air show in September.
Boat Guy
Identically marked? Including the Bu. #: 1033? Or is the other one 0976?
DeleteGonna check the BuNo. Take a day or so.
DeleteThey are improperly marked as well. The Felix insignia is not VF-6 and the -6 aircraft should have only the bottom of the nacelle in red.
Boat Guy
Oops! Not Felix. Not VF-6 either, though
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If NASA designed a fighter plane at government expense. Lived in Carlsbad and somehow missed this for 10 years
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