10.03.2009, 23:37
I believe that Blitz_Bury has been working on the F4U-1 and he has a ton of reference material on
Corsairs. I believe the plan was to create a new aircraft slot using the flight model of the Corsair MKI and labeling it the F4U-1 and assigning it as a US Aircraft. It is being tested to make sure the final configuration of the plane does not conflict with the unified installer and its associated mods. I don't know if the plan called for modifying the weapons load out or the engine without the water injection, but that could be a possibility. At any rate it will allow you to select USN, USMC or even USAAF and you should get the correct US national Insignia when you select markings on instead of the field modified Russian markings placed on lend lease aircraft with the over sized red star replaced by an over sized white star on the smaller blue circle that we get when selecting the Corsair MkI now.
The F4U-1 had a slightly lower seat than the F4U-1A and later Corsairs. It had a framed canopy. It also had the P&W R-2800-8 engine initially (as did the early F6F-3), but this may have been replaced in the field by the R-2800-8W with water injection when they became available. I believe it also had two unprotected wing fuel tanks outboard of the guns and these would get drained and vented first.
I believe that the F4U-1A had a slightly higher seat, a semi-bubble three piece sliding canopy and water injection. I believe it also had two unprotected wing fuel tanks outboard of the guns and these would get drained and vented first. These disappeared in the F4U-1C, F4U-1D and F4U-4.
Oleg's choice of using the Corsair MKI to represent the F4U-1 boggles the mind. The F4U-1 flew its first combat mission with the USMC from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in February 1943. The British received 95 Corsair MKI (F4U-1) which had the standard Corsair wing length. Because this made the wings too tall when folded to fit on British Aircraft Carrier hangar decks they did not get deployed with the FAA and therefore never were in combat. British Corsairs of all types were not used from land bases. Many of the Corsair MKI's remained in the United States to train FAA pilots on the type in places like Quonset Point NAS Rhode Island and Brunswick NAS Maine.
Corsairs. I believe the plan was to create a new aircraft slot using the flight model of the Corsair MKI and labeling it the F4U-1 and assigning it as a US Aircraft. It is being tested to make sure the final configuration of the plane does not conflict with the unified installer and its associated mods. I don't know if the plan called for modifying the weapons load out or the engine without the water injection, but that could be a possibility. At any rate it will allow you to select USN, USMC or even USAAF and you should get the correct US national Insignia when you select markings on instead of the field modified Russian markings placed on lend lease aircraft with the over sized red star replaced by an over sized white star on the smaller blue circle that we get when selecting the Corsair MkI now.
The F4U-1 had a slightly lower seat than the F4U-1A and later Corsairs. It had a framed canopy. It also had the P&W R-2800-8 engine initially (as did the early F6F-3), but this may have been replaced in the field by the R-2800-8W with water injection when they became available. I believe it also had two unprotected wing fuel tanks outboard of the guns and these would get drained and vented first.
I believe that the F4U-1A had a slightly higher seat, a semi-bubble three piece sliding canopy and water injection. I believe it also had two unprotected wing fuel tanks outboard of the guns and these would get drained and vented first. These disappeared in the F4U-1C, F4U-1D and F4U-4.
Oleg's choice of using the Corsair MKI to represent the F4U-1 boggles the mind. The F4U-1 flew its first combat mission with the USMC from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in February 1943. The British received 95 Corsair MKI (F4U-1) which had the standard Corsair wing length. Because this made the wings too tall when folded to fit on British Aircraft Carrier hangar decks they did not get deployed with the FAA and therefore never were in combat. British Corsairs of all types were not used from land bases. Many of the Corsair MKI's remained in the United States to train FAA pilots on the type in places like Quonset Point NAS Rhode Island and Brunswick NAS Maine.
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