I have AM’s offering of the F2G Corsair “Miss Port Columbia” in my stash. I read where the production of this plane was canceled after the atom bombs worked and ended the war. It got me to thinking what if. What if the A-bombs had not worked and the F2G’s were put into full production. Then what if these were sitting around beside the old Skyraiders when the USAF started looking for those type planes during the Vietnam War.
A Corsair, loaded to bare, in a three color SEA camo scheme. What do you think?
Sounds like a good idea to me, a Corsair in almost any scheme is good to go in my book. Add some pylons and load it up with some 'Nam era ordanance and I think it would make a real nice build.
I dont think it was that exact aircraft, but I remember as a kid going to Pratt & Whitney’s 60th and 65th anniversary airshows, and they had one of these B-17’s with the P&W engine in the nose.
A very interesting thought–I would also consider two other possibilities too…a camo USMC version, since they were one of the operators of the original Corsair, and a USN version in the gull gray over white scheme, like the Navy did with their skyraiders in Vietnam.
I remember of a photo of a USMC AU-1 with lots of pylons and loaded for bear in Korea. Your idea has me thinking that would be the mod to look for, AU-1 weapons pylon configuration on F2G-1/2 wing (wings should be similar). It would certainly look cool and you could put just about any scheme on it - USMC hi-viz, SEA, SVNAF, “soccer war”, etc.
Great idea, I’m looking forward to the finished model.
How bout the F2G in Taiwan service with turbo-prop instead of the massive 4360?
And, one I have in the que awaiting its’ turn on the desk (Monogram’s old 1/90 scale) is a modified for speed between Pacific islands toting VIPs is a P&W 4360 engined C-47.
Here is some more info on the Pratt & Whitney plane. This plane survives today, after a 15 year restoration it is now painted as “Liberty Belle”, which is the actual nose art it wore in combat over Germany. It was flown by P&W from 1947 to 1967 to test the T-34 and T-64 turboprop engines. It was then displayed at the air museum at Bradley International Airport in CT, and when the tornado came through in 1979 the B-17 was very heavily damaged. It flies again today, in original B-17G configuration.
I’ll add my .02 as well. The 5 engined B-17 in the first pic of this thread is presently in Urbana OH, under full resoration to flight status. You can read about her in the b17project link. I believe liberty belle is the a/c in the other pic, it is fact that liberty belle is one of those test bed aircraft. From reading they’re site, she was a lot of work to get to where she is today, the entire cockpit had to be put back it’s original location. They moved the cockpit back 4’ when ading that turbo prop!
As for the the B-24 w/B-17 nose, yeah, I’d be scratching my head too.
As far as the “what if” corsair goes, do it, doo eet now! That would be awsome to see, the SEA paint scheme, all those pylons and she has to be a dirty, grimy, heavily exhaust stained girl.
