![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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