Walkaround #588

Waco CG-4A Combat Glider 

Reference photos by Michael Boyd

Right side view of restored nose section

 

      

Waco CG-4A Combat Glider s/n 45-15009 from WW2

These photos were taken at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Dover DE on 10 January 2004.

The photos are in 2 groups, the first covering the restored nose section on display at the museum and the second covering the unrestored cargo/troop compartment and rear fuselage sections in the restoration hangar on the base (the wings and tail surfaces were stacked against the hangar wall and inaccessible).

Michael Boyd

Group 1 (nose section)

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Cockpit viewed from rear

Cockpit controls (numbered as follows:)
1. Pilot's control wheel2. Copilot's control wheel
3. Instrument panel
4. Interphone microphone
 5. Pilot's rudder pedals
6. Toe brakes
7. Copilot's rudder pedals (no toe brakes)
8. Spoiler control rods (left and right)
 9. Nose release lever

Instrument panel (numbered as follows:)
 1. Navigation light switches
 2. Landing light switch
 3. Airspeed indicator
 4. Rate-of-climb indicator
 5. Turn-and-bank indicator
 6. Altimiter
7. Compass

Overhead controls (numbered as follows:)
1. Tow line release
2. Rudder trim
3. Elevator trim
4. Aileron trim
5. Parachute release

 

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Pitot tube above nose

Nose framing left side

Cockpit floor from left side (note nose release and spoiler levers)
Pilot seat from left front

 

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Copilot sear from rear

 

Group 2 (unrestored fuselage sections in restoration hangar)

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Cargo/troop compartment details

Cargo/troop compartment from rear

Left main landing gear
Right main landing gear

 

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Rear fuselage and tailwheel (note the 2 zippered access flaps)

Elevator control pulleys in upper rear fuselage near tail

One of four troop benches from cargo/troop compartment (so lightweight, I saw a 7-year old child lift it)

 

Photos and text © by Michael Boyd