Install the wing by sliding it through the gap in the fuselage sides, and cement to lower longeron. Build the wing fiat and omit ribs R1 and the center rib until dihedral is added. Cut out ribs and taper the main spar as indicated at section B. Notch longerons at station E and bend the sides. Add the crosspieces as shown in top view, from station A to E. Make the sides of the fuselage from 1/8 in sq hard balsa, but omit sheet balsa sides between station A to D until the wing is mounted. Details are also included for building a rubber-powered version. Plans are shown for a 1/2 in to 1 ft model, powered by the McCoy.
A total of 11,335 Corsairs were built, with varying armament.
Armament usually consisted of three 50-cal machine guns in each wing. The Corsair was one of the heaviest carrier based single-engine fighters, but the cushioning effect of the inverted gull-wing enabled it to take off swiftly and land very easily in spite of its gross weight of 11,500 lbs. The Corsair is an all-metal low-wing fighter plane powered by one 18-cylinder twin-row radial air-cooled Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine, rated at 2,000 hp, and is capable of over 400 mph, which made it the swiftest carrier fighter in the world, at that time. including the following: Wolf Pack 86 victories Hell-hawks, 94 Blacksheep, 62 Swashbucklers, 33 8-Balls, 28 Flying Deuces, 22. Other sensational victories were chalked up by other squadrons in a few months. Major Gregory L Boyington, of the Black Sheep, moved into the company of Joe Foss and Eddie Rickenbacker by downing his twenty-sixth Jap plane and twenty of his victories were in a Corsair. THE Corsairs joined Carrier Air Groups through late 1944. Quote: "The 'ancient' Corsair is still fighting - build your own model of it. It was flown for the first time on 16th or 22nd April 1944.Vought F4U-1 Corsair. This plane used the the birdcage canopy, the turbo supercharger was instalIed in a large fairing under the fuselage, this fairing was 50 inch large that it eliminated the catapult hooks, but this was of no consequence, since the proposed F4U-3 was to be used exclusively by the US Marines as a land based fighter. The first prototype was called the XF4U-3A, and it was converted from a F4U-1A, BuNo. The change to this powerplant necessitated the use of a four-blade Hamilton Standard propeller with blades of 6501A-0 type. Plans were made in March 1942 for two proto types and a third was ordered in December 1942, to be converted from F4U-1 existing airframes and also decided mid 1943 to evaluate the Pratt & Whitnev XR-2800-16 "C"-series engine with a 2stage Birmann turbosupercharger of 1009A type. With the Vought project VS-331,Vought created the F4U-3 being a high speed, high altitude version of the Corsair fitted with a 2stage turbo supercharger from Rudolph Birmann of TEC from Trenton. On 14th June, BuAer asked Vought a proposal for making a high altitude version of the Corsair.
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