Corsair Gathering at Chance Vought Plant 2005 - CN - USA

[CrazeyMainer]

Hi All,

I see you don't have anything up on this so her you guys go

June 3 - 5, 2005  http://www.veteranssalute.org/

Right now they have 9 Corsair comming and are trying to get three or foour more this would surpass the Oshkosh record on 12 a few years back.

If anyone is interested in going please pm i can give you a run down on what is going on.

Cheers
RER

[Liza]

Thanks for the info. The date has been added to your post and it has been linked to the calendar.

[Photogal]

Anyone going to this? How about dinner for FC'ers?

[photoz01]

Friday 6pm
1 B-25, 1 T-6, 4 Corsairs with only one more expected.
Bring bug spray, little tiny bugs that have a big bite were all over us until we used the complimentary deep woods off at one of the vendor tents.
also stick a sandwich in a pocket, there is only two food vendors and they ran out of stuff on friday...
no real aerobatic flights just multiple low approaches. lots of stuff to look at and interesting people to listen to.
Kevin

[tvrphoto]

Well, at least they have a cool photoship on hand to view the small showing of aircraft.  Always positive!

[Big Square A]

Although not an "airshow" this was a Salute to veterans marking th 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. The flying demonstrations (fly bys) were very good, 5 Corsairs were on hand as well as B-25 Panchito, an AT-23 trainer, a Yak and an T-6 Texan. In addition a couple of CT ANG A-10 made several passes in the afternoon. The Corsair was recently named the official plane for the state of Connecticut and was designed and built by Chance Vought at what is now Sikorsky Memorial Airport the, location for this event. Here is a shot ot 4 of the corsairs at the end of the day yesterday, I will add some flying shots later.

[Big Square A]

Here is one of the Yak

[Liza]

Cool how the vapors encircle the aircraft.

[Big Square A]

Liza, that's what I thought when I looked at it last night. I'm still learning to adjust a picture to attach to these postings as well as working on the prop blur thing

[Liza]

I, too, am working on the prop blur thing. Getting better when the aircraft is on the ground and I have a tripod. In the air, well, that's another story....

[Big Square A]

Here is one of SkyBoss

[Big Square A]

Another SkyBoss

[Big Square A]

The A-10

[Rob W.]

Did they happen to have any Super Corsairs there?

[Mike Stephens]

AH MAN!!!
And where was I?!?!  Fixing my leaky roof 
Great shots, thanks for sharing!
Love the 103rd Hog too!
Mike