
This is a US Marine Corp Chance-Vought Corsair F4U-5 BuNo 129378 of Aircraft Engineering Squadron 12, based at Quantico Virginia and flown by Col. John Bolt, USMC, in 1957; this airplane - one of the last Corsairs still on active service with the Marine Corps - is remarkable for being in the then-new scheme of Light Gull Grey over Glossy White. It is for the P51-D slot in EAW.

The machines of AES-12 were actually AU-1 Corsairs, but I thought this camo scheme was way too cool to be left undone, so a -5 it is! Besides, the AU-1 flies like a dog!

The skin is by me, including a new wingview, whilst the 3D wireframe and it's 3dz files have been skilfully modified by Woolfman and -E to make the canopy and propellor transparent (Woolfman) and to make the wing insignias non-mirroring (-E). The ordnance hardpoints have been fixed by Charles, who recently added the tailhook also.

And as a bonus, it comes with an excellent cockpit from Claudio Wilches. There is no dedicated Corsair cockpit, and there has been some contention with including this one in my previous Corsairs, but I like it. MUCH better than the original, even with sharpened instruments. IMHO. Feel free to use whichever one you want, however.

So thanks to Woolfman, -E, Charles and Claudio!

Richard "Gramps" Kaminski
25/08/02
Endeavour2000@hotmail.com

