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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.. |
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