From that point on, many variants were produced differing in engines or equipment, without any substantial change in its outward appearance.Ĭonstruction: Wing: Don't let dreary visions of complex structure put you off. After the 689th Corsair was built, a new version was introduced with the more familiar bub-ble canopy. The first operational unit got the F4U-1 model in September, 1942. Under each wing there were two bomb racks. The final armament was three 50 caliber machine guns in each wing with 400 rounds of ammunition each. The linkage controlling the aileron had some 96 modifications before the design was settled. But there was still a lot left to improve. The prototype had its maiden flight in May, 1940 and it was quite apparent, even after only the first 30 minutes flying time, that its qualities would be extraordinary. Production of the Corsair continued until December 1952 and it was the last classic propeller fighter produced in America. This extraordinarily high ratio made it better than any Japanese plane and many experts claim that it was better than the Army Air Corps vaunted P-51 Mustang. Corsairs shot down 2,140 planes against only 189 loses of their own. Serving in both the Navy and the Marine Corps, this plane was superior to the Japanese aircraft it encountered in the Pacific theater of World War II. The Corsair was undoubtedly one of the most successful Navy fighters to enter service before the era of the jet aircraft. At this point, I'm still using only the four primary channels for control without any extra functions, but in the future, I think I shall add a fifth servo for dropping a fuel tank or a bomb to get a few more points in scale competition. Now, after building and flying it, I can report that it flies very nicely and its speed is so great that it could easily give some stiff competition at the Reno pylon races. But only time would end up telling how well it would fly. 40 schnuerle engine would make it fast and its wing span, space saving.
Its thick fuselage and gull wing suited my first requirement pretty well. Quote: "I wanted to build an attractive, space-saving, fast, and good-flying model in the sport scale category.
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