Greetings everyone… we’re back from our little summertime hiatus here at Tattoos In Flight, ready for another great year of great aviation tattoos from around the world! Drop us a line at tattoosinflight@gmail.com if you have any good stuff to share!
The Chance Vought F4U Corsair continues the trend of being one of the most popular tattooed airplanes in today’s post. With it’s famous inverted gull wings to provide ground clearance for the massive Hamilton Standard propeller with a diameter of 13 feet, 4 inches attached to the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine.
With the combination of advanced aerodynamics, one powerful engine and a large prop, the F4U Corsair became the first U.S. fighter aircraft to exceed 400 mph in flight, with the XF4U-1 reaching 405 mph on October 1st, 1940 on a flight from Stratford, CT to Hartford, CT.
The Corsair remained one of the fastest fighters used during WWII, though it’s full usefulness as a carrier-based fighter was never fully realized as the aircraft remained a tricky aircraft to operate on and off aircraft carriers.
The Corsair was a long-serving design as well. Along with use throughout World War II, the Corsair flew in the Korean War as a night fighter and even flew in the early days of the Vietnam War before U.S. entry during the First Indochina War in use by the French Navy’s Aéronavale.
This fantastic and colorful rib tattoo was created by artist Cecil Porter of Hollywood, CA. Cecil works from a private studio at Under The Gun Tattoo on Melrose Ave. in Hollywood. This particular tattoo won Best Tattoo of the Day at the Body Art Expo in Pomona, CA in January 2009.
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