Official FlightLine F4U-1A Corsair 1600mm (63") Wingspan

[Woohoo\o/]

Did the maiden flight this morning and it was a lovely flight. What sucks is the port side landing gear collapsed on the third landing.

first landing was a greaser.

second a minor bounce and acceptable.

third was less than minor bounce and the gear collapsed.

I knew about the fragile landing gear when purchasing this model but I didn’t know it would be THIS bad.

is motion/flightline doing anything about this?

[beatlerat]

Beatlerat,

Here is the FL Corsair decal sheet that came with my model. Hope this helps

Best Regards, Rex

Awesome! Thanks!

[Elbee]

Grossman56

Outstanding.

Best, LB

[Grossman56]

Oxygen tank installed and here's what the cockpit looks like today:



A few more things to do, like make a insert to fit over the dash so there won't be any gatoring in the future and I'd like to come up with something better for the bullet proof glass. Also I want to run wiring from the switches into the dash like Dave did. It's never ending!

Grossman56
(DangerousDan)

[Grossman56]

Those sheets alone are works of art, don't throw them away!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Beatlerat,

Here is the FL Corsair decal sheet that came with my model. Hope this helps

Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Looks good Elbee!
I've just been looking for the STL files that you made to augment the Spitfire cockpit. Are they available?

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Elbee]

Corsair Crew,

Here is a picture of the 'modified' Corsair Spinner.

It is a bit smaller and looks less "Bozo Nose" IMHO.

It uses all the OEM hardware.

I wiped it down with Acetone, primed and sanded it, then finish color.

It fits like a dream.

I will email the G-Code for a Prusa Mini to Grossman56 / davegee if y'all want it.

Best, LB

[jetfool]

Guys, hopefully this is what you need strutmod - Copy (2).zip strutmod.zip
I might have sent the files twice. Me and computers, UGH!

[Grossman56]

Rex, Dave and I were looking for the STL files for the Corsair scissors, by any chance do you have it?

[davegee]

Davegee,
I noticed the angle of the nose and figured they did it for the motor down thrust. From pictures my stripe looks too far past from the cowl hinge if that makes sense. No problem to re do if I decide which is best. Sorry I put my pictures in the wrong post.

Dangerous,
Glad everything worked. I forgot to de-burr the axle hole, if I were you, I wouldn't pay that machine shop. LOL
If you need anything else just ask.
Elbee has a better scale 3d spinner hub for the Corsair. Are you guys using it?

Best Regards, Rex

Hi Rex: I think it is probably a judgement call on your part how you find it looks to you, the builder. That's the only one who really counts. I'm happy with the way my models came out the way I did them with a constant one inch stripe on the front of the foam fuselage, and painting All of the plastic cowl piece on the forward end. There's no getting around the angled plastic cowl piece due to the necessity that they work in the right or down thrust to make a model airplane fly properly. With that required design part for model flying, you can't possibly have a uniform scaled down 24 inch cowl stripe as the real airplanes had. We just have to do the best we can with what we have to work with.

I haven't printed up the improved Elbee Corsair prop hub. I'm not all that familiar with it and have just have used the OEM hub for the past 5+ years that I have had this airplane. I'm not averse to looking into the idea of using it, it just hasn't been on my "radar" up to this point.

Davegee

[jetfool]

Davegee,
I noticed the angle of the nose and figured they did it for the motor down thrust. From pictures my stripe looks too far past from the cowl hinge if that makes sense. No problem to re do if I decide which is best. Sorry I put my pictures in the wrong post.

Dangerous,
Glad everything worked. I forgot to de-burr the axle hole, if I were you, I wouldn't pay that machine shop. LOL
If you need anything else just ask.
Elbee has a better scale 3d spinner hub for the Corsair. Are you guys using it?

Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

BTW, I was just thinking about when I 'Papa Dotted' the Corsair. As anyone who has checked out the riveting on the corsair has seen, some of the 'rivets' look bigger than the others, they're probably the 'lock down' things that I can't remember the name of but dealt with them on the DC3. The more 'dotting' I did the better I got and when dealing with the larger 'rivets' I'd make a hole with the pen I was using then insert a small Allan Key with the rounded end into the hole and give it a half twist or so to make a more scale like look.

[Grossman56]

Looking good Rex, remember, any help I can give you, just let me know.
BTW, I got the bushings installed. I had to hone out the tip with a Dremel, but they slid on perfectly after that. I used two of your spacers to center the wheel, installed the bushing, then slide the axle through the wheel and used a locking collar to stabilize the whole thing. Then into the strut and it works flawlessly! Thanks so much!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Hi Rex: I just looked at one of my airplanes, I Wanted Wings. I made a cowl stripe of a constant one (1) inch around the front of the fuselage, going backwards from where the plastic nose cowl mounts onto the airplane. I painted all the plastic nose cowl red (or white, per the particular airplane). One issue I guess, for me is that the plastic nose cowl piece angles quite a bit to allow the prop and motor to have the proper right thrust for these model airplanes to fly properly. Obviously, the real planes did not have this. That might account for the perception that from some angles the cowl stripe with that plastic cowl piece attached looks too wide? Not sure. From your photos, it seems about right to me and looking at my planes that I have painted up similarly.

For these planes, I have found using a constant one (1) inch cowl stripe starting just aft of where the the plastic cowl piece fits on the fuse and then painting the entire plastic nose cowl piece red or white, seems to me to be a good compromise for the angled plastic cowl piece for right thrust considerations. It might be just a bit wonky due to this, but either I have gotten used to it, or it looks fine like that, to me.

The tail stripes look good to me from what I can see in the pictures.

Davegee

[jetfool]

Dave,
Our club members are mostly Timbers, sailplanes, auto gyros, umx. Couple of us fly scale and my test pilot flys heli, jets scale and everything else like the pros fly. In his forty's and his reflexes are great. Oh,
to be young again!
Today I sprayed the white stripes and it came out great. I have some touch- up/over spray to fix.
I used the measurements and scaled to 1 1/2" but the cowl stripe looks too wide, 3" for scale size. What do you guys think

[davegee]

I'm jealous that you two have each other in the same town to brainstorm together. Not really, glad to see both enjoying your hobby.
Rex

Dan and I joke that we're the only scale warbird nuts in these parts. All the others seem to like the 3D flying stuff.

Davegee

[jetfool]

I'm jealous that you two have each other in the same town to brainstorm together. Not really, glad to see both enjoying your hobby.
Rex

[davegee]

Got it handled, Dave. Callie has the instrument panels and I just ordered both of us one.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Excellent!

Thanks!

davegee

[Grossman56]

Got it handled, Dave. Callie has the instrument panels and I just ordered both of us one.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)