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Published: 2012-09-07 14:56:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1211; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 41
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A Chance Vought F4U-5 Corsair and a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet take part in the United States Navy (USN) Legacy Flight over the Cleveland National Air Show, Labor Day weekend, 2012.Other sights that day:
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The corsair is looking a bit static. Β When photographic prop planes you want to get the "prop blur" effect to make it stand out. Β Try bumping up your ISO or switching up your shutter speed.
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Any idea who the Super Hornet belongs to? It kinda looks like VFA-122 but I'm not sure. Any idea??
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They are from VFA-106 who are known as the Gladiators.
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Ok East Coast squadron. I've heard of them. My boyfriend served TAD time with them before he got to his current squadron! But that is awesome!!! 
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They are beautiful machines!
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Yes, a hornet belongs to the family of wasps (vespidae) and a corsair is a pirate. Was going for an oblique reference there! LOL
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Well I guess if you get technical.
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Beautiful! I do love the later Corsair variants, especially with the radome on the wing.
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Yeah, I always thought it made them look just a little more badass with that! Thanks for the 
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