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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 14, 2011 18:33:44 GMT 12
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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 20, 2011 4:59:41 GMT 12
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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 20, 2011 5:53:37 GMT 12
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Post by corsair on Aug 20, 2011 9:54:40 GMT 12
Hi Luthermoore
Have sent you a PM
Thanks
Corsair
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 20, 2011 10:33:23 GMT 12
The writing on that photo says "Eric Green, self, John Claydon."
Would that be the same John Claydon who flew the anti-forest fire Auster missions and Antarctic Beaver missions?
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Post by errolmartyn on Aug 20, 2011 11:25:27 GMT 12
The writing on that photo says "Eric Green, self, John Claydon." Would that be the same John Claydon who flew the anti-forest fire Auster missions and Antarctic Beaver missions? The answer is yes. There were only two John Claydon's in the WWII RNZAF - one the pilot who went on to fly in the Antarctic, the other a clerk. Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 20, 2011 11:42:31 GMT 12
Thanks Errol. I never realised his career went back to WWII.
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Post by errolmartyn on Aug 20, 2011 15:28:11 GMT 12
Thanks Errol. I never realised his career went back to WWII. Even earlier than that, Dave. John Richard Claydon started out with the RNZAF on 4 Nov 1936 as an AC2 and worked his way up from there (to wing commander) and is now into his 95th year here in Christchurch. Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 20, 2011 15:50:02 GMT 12
Crikey. I hope someone from the Air Force Musuem has sat him down and recorded his memories of all those years in the RNZAF. What a great career. He must be the last of the 1936 airmen too now I guess. Derm Hurley is no longer with us.
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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 20, 2011 20:19:17 GMT 12
Do you have contact with him? if so I wonder if he would like this photo.
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Post by harvard1041 on Aug 21, 2011 8:00:24 GMT 12
..and might I add, a really interesting guy to talk to. Pre-war ground service at Wigram, wartime operations on Corsairs, J Force in Japan, post war career including the Antartic crossing. Very keen climber and hunter / fisherman.
Friend of the family Dave - well worth interviewing I would have thought.
rgds Hvd1041
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Post by pjw4118 on Aug 21, 2011 11:37:06 GMT 12
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Post by baz62 on Aug 21, 2011 11:43:59 GMT 12
That one of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) Corsairs(4th photo down from the top in pjw4118's post)) is quite appropriate as the airworthy Corsair flying here has the clipped wings as fitted to FAA Corsairs! (Would really love to know why they installed those wings in the restoration in the US............. )
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Post by shorty on Aug 21, 2011 12:29:32 GMT 12
baz, I think those tips were installed in the UK when it was flying in the FAA scheme there
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2011 15:23:52 GMT 12
Those are superb photos Peter. Have you any idea where the photo of the apron full of Corsairs was taken?
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Post by pjw4118 on Aug 21, 2011 15:51:10 GMT 12
Dave, Goodyear sent me a pile of photos some years ago so I assume its their plant . The later photo of FG 1 or FG2 looks to be the same place. The stamp on the back just says Goodyear Aircraft Corp, Akron , Ohio
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2011 16:00:49 GMT 12
Cheers. I'm trying to work out what the piles are up the centre of the photo. Looks like muck-spreading season?? Whatever the piles are, they're leaching moisture.
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Post by pjw4118 on Aug 21, 2011 16:15:47 GMT 12
I have looked at that photo enlarged and I think that its snow piles. Theres a hot air warmer beside the bottom pile and the background treed area has a lot of white around it. It must be cold as the technical bods all seemed wrapped up.Thats my guess as it sure aint cow doo.
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Post by baz62 on Aug 21, 2011 18:09:14 GMT 12
baz, I think those tips were installed in the UK when it was flying in the FAA scheme there According to a chap I spoke to in the US the wingtips are part of the wing structure and aren't removable. You either have a clipped wing or you don't. Either that or they took the wing apart and rebuilt the tip structure as a clipped wing perhaps?
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Post by Tony on Aug 21, 2011 20:21:48 GMT 12
That's an interesting pic showing the three RN FAA Goodyear FG-1's taken at the end of the war.
They were part of an order for 120 aircraft (KE310 - KE429) but the order was cancelled prior to delivery, and the aircraft reverted to US Navy control and the aircraft possibly only underwent test flying.
Interesting even at that late stage of the war that the Corsairs were still being painted in C.1 (fuselage) C (under wing) and B (upper wing) roundels.
KE323 (BuNo 92399) the only survivor is airworthy as N451FG '17' with the Cavanagh Flight Museum.
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