Thursday, April 28, 2022

Chubby Stubby

 


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  1. 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.

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  2. Hate to land it on pavement.

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  3. 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

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    1. Identically marked? Including the Bu. #: 1033? Or is the other one 0976?

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    2. 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

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    3. Oops! Not Felix. Not VF-6 either, though
      BG

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  4. If NASA designed a fighter plane at government expense. Lived in Carlsbad and somehow missed this for 10 years

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