GOODYEAR F2G Corsair

[jslugman]

Fantastic stuff guys, I'm well-jealous!

[Bubak]

Great images Bill.....super!!

[Scott Youmans]

A couple of photos from Moose Peterson's air it air session with the two Corsairs are posted here. Nice!

http://www.moosepeterson.com/blog/category/air-races/

[Scott Youmans]

F2G-1 - Another shot of "57".  December 27th at Coolidge

[Scott Youmans]

F2G-1 - "57" in front of the Coolidge hangar 12/27/2011.

[Jay Beckman]

A certain well known wildlife shooter turned airplane buff didn't cover this as well as you guys did...

[Brian Lockett]

From Larry Perkins, the pilot of Race 57:  The Race 57 program letter for calendar year 2012 includes the following events:

1)   Cactus Fly-In;
2)   MCAS Yuma Airshow;
3)   NAF El Centro Airshow;
4)   Watsonville Airshow;
5)   EAA Air Venture;
6)   Reno Air Races; and
7)   Copperstate Fly-In

[cpasley]

Brian, does this mean they will fly at these events?

[Scott Youmans]

A certain well known wildlife shooter turned airplane buff didn't cover this as well as you guys did...

Jay, thanks on behalf of everyone who shot that day.  It was a surprising turn of events for me. I drove to Falcon half-way expecting not to get access.  When I heard they were going to operate out of Coolidge I thought, why not go, I've already driven this far.  In the case of the shot with the reflected sunset in the hangar windows, if I hadn't been within a few degrees of the correct location I never would have seen that opportunity.

Oddly, hardly any of my take-off and landing shots came out sharp.  Trying too hard to get prop blur I think.  Also standing too close to the runway.  Just because you can doesn't always mean you should!  Another lesson I've learned more than once.

[Joe Copalman]

Also standing too close to the runway.  Just because you can doesn't always mean you should!  Another lesson I've learned more than once.

AMEN to that.

[Brian Lockett]

Brian, does this mean they will fly at these events?

I don't know for sure.  I cut and pasted the list as I got it.  I will see what I can find out.

[cpasley]

I aprreciate that Brian

[wingsnstuff]

This month's issue of Warbirds has a historical write-up on Race 57 and Race 74 and the Super Corsairs.  Contains lots of nice photos too.

[Jay Beckman]

...as photographed by the a fore mentioned wildlife shooter turned aviation buff.

[Joe Copalman]

Wow, that was fast.