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04-19-2008, 11:35 PM
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does anyone know what color the interor of the F2A-3's at Midway were? I'm curious about the cockpit as well as wheel well and other interior spaces.
Also, any idea who named the darned things "Buffalo"? And why?
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04-19-2008, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by wm3456  Also, any idea who named the darned things "Buffalo"? And why? | Cause "F*cking Ugly Flying Feces' was not politically correct and "Leviathan Poop" was too long.
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04-20-2008, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by wm3456 does anyone know what color the interor of the F2A-3's at Midway were? I'm curious about the cockpit as well as wheel well and other interior spaces.
Also, any idea who named the darned things "Buffalo"? And why? | God know where the name "buffalo" came from. More than likely they were delivered to the fleet with bare metal interiors and wheel wells. By the time Midway took place most of those aircraft probably went through depot level maintenance - the interiors were probably zinc chromate green, the wheel wells painted in the same colors as the underside of the aircraft - just a guess from photos I seen.
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04-20-2008, 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 The Finish AF used them with good success. | better than "Good"! The Fins kicked arse!
still ugly though.
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04-20-2008, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by wm3456 Also, any idea who named the darned things "Buffalo"? And why? | Got a couple of references crediting the RAF for naming the Brewster the Buffalo ( "portly animal"). | |
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Originally Posted by comiso90 Cause "F*cking Ugly Flying Feces' was not politically correct and "Leviathan Poop" was too long.
. | you owe me a cup of coffe cause i spilled it laughing 
but i think its a good nice plane.
Bad tactics can make any plane look silly.
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04-20-2008, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by comiso90 Cause "F*cking Ugly Flying Feces' was not politically correct and "Leviathan Poop" was too long.
. | "Fuff". I'll accept that. By the way Cos, were the horns variable pitch?
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04-20-2008, 05:02 PM
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Some good pictures there.
Normaly you can have google traslate that (Russian, the 1st link), but the page isn't working with that right now. (it's worked before)
And the biggest external difference is that the F2A-3 was fitted with a frameless sliding canopy. (the rear decking was still framed) And many also seem to have had the prop spinner removed for operations. (possibly to improve cooling) There is a slight difference in the lenght of the nose on the F2A-1, F2A-2, and F2A-3 due to CoG orientation. And the F2A-1/B-239 had a smaller spinner than later models and lacked the large plexiglass panels on the belly. (for downward view)
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04-20-2008, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by comiso90 see a resemblance?
. | Hey its even going the right way
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| You need to put wings on this animal. You know, Buffalo wings.... 
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05-17-2008, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by wm3456 Also, any idea who named the darned things "Buffalo"? And why? | The British were fond of alliterative aircraft names (Hawker Hart/Hurricane/Hind) and Buffalo probably just popped into somebody's head when they heard Brewster ... but it is my understanding that the name did come from England.
By the way, the aviation museum in Helsinki has a Buffalo tail wheel which they claim is the last surviving piece of the breed. | |
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Originally Posted by comiso90 see a resemblance?
. | yep total resmblance
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