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Post by Swampy on Aug 28, 2012 23:07:47 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Aug 28, 2012 23:14:29 GMT -5
What a find!
At the end of the Pacific War, LARGE numbers of 'Corsairs' were tipped over the side of British aircraf6t carriers just off the Australian east coast.
They found them a year or so ago, but they were too far gone to bring to the surface.
Pity.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Aug 29, 2012 10:21:23 GMT -5
That only shows the incredible power of American industry. Here's a link regarding the dumping of Corsairs off the coast. |
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Post by Sir John on Aug 29, 2012 13:13:30 GMT -5
Swampy,
Not sure of the details, but I remember reading somewhere that a US condition of the supply of these aircraft was that they were not to be on sold or given to a 3rd party, and if required were to be returned to the USA.
The USA had no use for them, so I assume that they were dumped on their orders.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Aug 31, 2012 20:17:15 GMT -5
The USA had no use for them, so I assume that they were dumped on their orders. More planes than they could use - and people wonder why I want to be president. |
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Post by mcnoch on Sept 1, 2012 4:45:10 GMT -5
I wonder why they weren't flown out - maybe the British didn't have the pilots. In general there were a number of problems that lead to such actions. Not enough pilots is one thing, problematic readiness-rates due to problems in the logistics of oil, fuel and spear parts another and the third was range of the aircraft. Not all air stations in SEA were in range of two or more other air fields. So if one of those air fields that were required by others as a refueling-stop was overrun, the depending air fields were in trouble too. In this specific case that is all not true, as the article claims that they were buried in their transport crates as they were seen as obsolete. |
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