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Chris Cartledge, who has died aged 100, was a Fleet Air Arm pilot who flew the F4U Corsair – the “Bent-Wing Bastard” – on operations against the Germans and the Japanese in the Second World War; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross aged 20 and qualified twice as a member of the Goldfish Club, whose members had ditched at sea.
Leslie Don Gilliam was born October 18, 1934 in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on November 19, 2023.
He had it all: a wife and a mistress, a limousine and a motorcycle, the second-highest job at the Pentagon and some good-time Dallas buddies. Then the SEC took an interest in his life.
The Corsair remains the only heavier-than-are aircraft that Goodyear ever built, and it inspired a country when it came online in 1942.
With 70 feet of wingspan and a 22 foot high tail, the Skypirate was the huge piston powered Navy torpedo bomber that never came to be.