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Old 06-25-2015 | 08:29 AM
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dan kelly
 
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Nice looking model Ollie. Yes dull, beaten and shot up does make me happy. Too bad the Corsair pictured above got shot down. Last ten inches of wing exploded in turn 2 during a practice race
at TIMPA.ORG . The manufacturer stopped the spar at the last wing joint where it swept up. Nothing but a hollow core after that. It's was an ARF so didn't know it was built like that. Spectacular
crash though. John G. was just ahead of me and though I had ran into him. I didn't, but he landed anyway just to have his wing drop out from under the P47 as it rolled to a stop??? Old model with
brittle epoxy holding the wing bolt mounts. My crash saved his plane ha ha.