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Looks like a F2G, the super corsair. I believe only 10 production planes were built. Just search the internet with super corsair and it will bring up some photos.

If they were trying to make a super corsair they should have left the vertical stabilizer alone. The one they put on that frankenstein has the basic shape of the bearcat's, but is way too wide front to back.


Jeffrey

An F2G fuselage would still have the basic profile of a corsair. The nose would be longer, there is a large intake scoop forward of the windscreen, and of course the bubble canopy, but still unmistakably a corsair. That custom fuselage is roughly the profile of a bearcat, or just about any Grumman aircraft of the period. The wing center section and tips appear to be unaltered, as far as I could tell in the pics.

I am surprised that someone paid that much for it. From what I could tell it looked pretty rough, it has some issues with proportion, and quite a few issues with correctness (for lack of another word).

tmanthegreat wrote:

Jay wrote:For someone who runs a hobby store, you'd think they'd know the difference between a corsair and...anything else. There's a freakin picture of it on the box! Somehow 2+2=5!?

Yes, but his appearance on his ebay picture doesn't seem too promising for anything approaching an intellectual level, let alone common sense

That's not very nice.

And the verdict is:

" item arrived intact... very unusual piece...as described "

an enigma wrapped up in a mystery & stuffed in a Corsair box.

PIcs please

pics please

Or was Dogbongo just quoting from the ebay feedback the buyer had written?

Jay wrote:Or was Dogbongo just quoting from the ebay feedback the buyer had written?

That's my understanding.

-Ski

sorry, shoulda clarified - I was quoting the feedback from ebay.

I did ask the buyer about the plane. If I hear back, I'll try to get some pics.

Damn, I was hoping to see it out of the box.

I found a picture of this plane and it kind of looks like that custom plane on Ebay.

but no gull wings

DocTodd wrote:I found a picture of this plane and it kind of looks like that custom plane on Ebay.

Thats the Ryan "Fireball" , a hybrid plane/ jet.

If the "thing" is indeed a proto or mistake we'll never see it as the buyer will probably keep it MIB and resell it in a few months.

If the thing is, as is expected, a fraud as a representative of the crapola Air Force, we still won't see it because the buyer would be embarrassed to show it to us, until he sells it as a "rare and unusual crapola...... er plane.

Has anybody ever bought a genuine "mistake" like a proto in a normal box or is that just a urban hoax?? Not counting "friends who saw one once at a show" and whose idenity must be kept secret......

TTT

The only oddity I ever saw as a first-issue Jeep at TrU that had not been painted at all - no details, no weathering, just OD plastic. I thought about buying it, then decided 'what will I ever do with it....'. If hindsight were 20/20

Looks like some kind of oddball attempt at a custom Bearcat that didn't quite make the cut to me. If you enlarge the pics a little it looks pretty rough in spots, especially along joints. I doubt this is a proto that got away, too many out of spec features that have already been mentined for that IMO.

Has anybody ever bought a genuine "mistake" like a proto in a normal box or is that just a urban hoax?? Not counting "friends who saw one once at a show" and whose idenity must be kept secret......

Only thing I ever happened upon personally was XD F-104's that were in the wrong box for the type.... for example a Nam' F-104 in a Marineflieger box.... I think this was fairly common though... I'm pretty sure other people around here reported finding the same mis-boxed F-104's at the time.

ostketten wrote:I'm pretty sure other people around here reported finding the same mis-boxed F-104's at the time.

Confirmed. I have a Nam 104 in a Marineflieger box.

Jay wrote:

ostketten wrote:I'm pretty sure other people around here reported finding the same mis-boxed F-104's at the time.

Confirmed. I have a Nam 104 in a Marineflieger box.

me too