F-4U-1 of VF-17, the Jolly Rogers... I think...


"russell" wrote in message
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I stood on the wing of this Corsair when I was about 6 years old (about
1959). It was standing on the side of the road in a junk yard owned by a
Garage proprietor, near Hamilton airport in New Zealand. My dad took a
photo of us with his box brownie, but that pic is long gone. A few years
later when visiting Hamilton we saw it again, this time at Hamilton
Airport, and then a few years after that again we saw it but this time it
was mounted on a big pole out side James Aviation, a large aerial top
dressing and cropspraying company. I was later saddened to hear it was sold
to the US.
But very happy to see many years later pictures of a most beautiful
Corsair, and find out it was the same one that had been my favourite as a
kid.
When I was little dad always took us Sunday driving and most times we
would end up at the airport for a look. (He still does, and he's 80 now.)
Whenever we went on holidays it was the same never went past an airport
without going in to check out the planes. I had other ties with aircraft
too as a kid, but I have bored you's enough already..