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

[Elbee]

Hi Mate, it's the Bubble top. Just bought it last night, should be here sometime next week.

FlightLine_Corsair_Bubble_Top_Cockpit_3DPUP-stl_files.zip


KB, These are the OEM STL files. Let me know if you have any issues downloading the Zip File.

You will need to be creative for the install as both the sides and the IP are not 'drop-in and glue'.

I know there are many posts in this thread, but if you filter using "photos only" you can get an idea of what you'll need to do.

Hugh Wiedman did a nice job of installing the OEM parts. Check his posts in this thread, too. A

I don't know your CAD abilities, but you can adjust the OEM STL files to better fit the cockpit by trimming sections away in your CAD program or even in some slicer programs.

I use Prusa Slicer 2.5.0 and TinkerCAD for most everything I do.

Hope this all helps. Best, Steve

[KevBell]

KB, Welcome to "Hobby Squawk". Which Corsair version are you building? There are different cockpit files for the "Birdcage" and the "Bubble-Top". Best, LB

Hi Mate, it's the Bubble top. (FlightLine F4U-1D Corsair "Bubble Top" 1600mm (63") Wingspan - PNP [FLW3041P] Motion RC Europe [FLW3041P] Motion RC Europe ) Just bought it last night, should be here sometime next week.

[Elbee]

Don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I am going to the Motion RC site and clicking on support on the Corsair page and the links for the STL files are not there. Does anyone know where to download them for the cockpit prints please.

KB, Welcome to "Hobby Squawk". Which Corsair version are you building? There are different cockpit files for the "Birdcage" and the "Bubble-Top". Best, LB

[KevBell]

Don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I am going to the Motion RC site and clicking on support on the Corsair page and the links for the STL files are not there. Does anyone know where to download them for the cockpit prints please.

[ArrowPilot]

I wrote in a not too distant post that I exchanged the springs for Tygon (gas/yellow) fuel tubing on this one. Find tubing that is just smaller that the inner wall of the strut. Cut it to length so it just pushes the set screw to the end of the slot. Grease it all up with Lithion grease (doesn't eat fuel tubing or rubber). You will not get the same amount of travel any more. You will get a strut that plants when it touches down and does not rebound. You do not want this a/c to bounce! I do this with all my planes at this point. I haven't found once were it's detrimental. The springs are almost always bad for landings!

I used the yellow, harder tubing this time because the softer glow fuel tubing (blue) that I usually use will slide into the slot and become cut after so many compressions. Put just enough in to get the strut to always extend. Cut the other side to an equal length. Use the grease. Don't run it dry. I'm telling ya, it works great once you figure it out.

Real planes don't use springs and they don't rebound.

Thank you sir. Will do.

[nuts-n-volts]

I wrote in a not too distant post that I exchanged the springs for Tygon (gas/yellow) fuel tubing on this one. Find tubing that is just smaller that the inner wall of the strut. Cut it to length so it just pushes the set screw to the end of the slot. Grease it all up with Lithion grease (doesn't eat fuel tubing or rubber). You will not get the same amount of travel any more. You will get a strut that plants when it touches down and does not rebound. You do not want this a/c to bounce! I do this with all my planes at this point. I haven't found once were it's detrimental. The springs are almost always bad for landings!

I used the yellow, harder tubing this time because the softer glow fuel tubing (blue) that I usually use will slide into the slot and become cut after so many compressions. Put just enough in to get the strut to always extend. Cut the other side to an equal length. Use the grease. Don't run it dry. I'm telling ya, it works great once you figure it out.

Real planes don't use springs and they don't rebound.

[ArrowPilot]

Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on the subject. Got er all together and going over everything twice before the maiden. Discovered that the springs in the landing struts when they are compressed with the weight of the plane will not rebound. I found that there was another set of spring that where included and I took the struts apart and honed, polished and lubed everthing and installed the heavy springs. Seems to work better. Am I OK doing that??? Thanks,

[nuts-n-volts]

Update... After trials centering the big prop to 0/0 and the incident with the flap servo, all is pretty good. I replaced the flap servo and it's working great. I also bought and installed an AR8360T with As3X. I had to admit that I couldn't "feel" the airplane yawing initially. Getting to the stick was always a fraction late, even if you know it's coming. So I bowed down to using a gyro. This is not a bad thing as some planes just need it. And I kinda forced the issue anyway. So, now it flies on rails. I still need to watch the right rudder as the torque from this thing is a lot. I will keep tweaking the rudder gain until it's right. (She does try to ground loop when the tail comes down.) But I had 3 great flights this morning including all aerobatics, spins, stalls, and touch and goes at full and half flaps. I do like the take-offs better with just a smidge of flap. She has massive presence in all phases. Really a Corsair thru and thru! Oh, and that camo... sometimes it's like watching 2 Stars-n-Bars moving thru space!

[Aros]

Agreed. I have yet in my entire life ever to have seen a Corsair that wasn't beautiful, yours included!

[ArrowPilot]

Is their such thing as a bad lookin corsair,, i think not. It looks awsome in the air ,, and on the ground... good luck

Yup, I agree. Thanks, My dad worked for Vought Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut prior to going overseas in World War II. Remember the stories he used to tell about building the F4U-Corsairs.

[f4u ausie]

Well back in April you all convinced me I should have. It took awhile but finally got it. Not the prettiest but it’s mine. Can’t wait to get it in the air. Thanks

Is their such thing as a bad lookin corsair,, i think not. It looks awsome in the air ,, and on the ground... good luck

[ArrowPilot]

AP, looks menacing to me. Nice work and congrats. Best, LB

Thank you sir.

[Elbee]

Well back in April you all convinced me I should have. It took awhile but finally got it. Not the prettiest but it’s mine. Can’t wait to get it in the air. Thanks

AP, looks menacing to me. Nice work and congrats. Best, LB

[ArrowPilot]

Well back in April you all convinced me I should have. It took awhile but finally got it. Not the prettiest but it’s mine. Can’t wait to get it in the air. Thanks

[Aros]

Looks great to me Elbee!

[Elbee]

Clint Walker as I remember,

That's Him! ]

HW, looks good to me. LB

[Hugh Wiedman]

Clint Walker as I remember, and he looks great. Hey, it coulda happened. Best, LB

That's Him! His legs are so long they reach through the bottom of the fuselage and instead of needing hydraulic brakes, he just digs his boots in, ala Fred Flintstone! When his head moves, there's an imbalance to that side and the aircraft heels over in the direction he's looking!

[Elbee]

Clint Walker as I remember, and he looks great. Hey, it coulda happened. Best, LB

[Hugh Wiedman]

Hi Ya'll, been busy, but managed to start pilot recruitment (printing). This figure is detailed and prints well with a .25 mm nozzle. Scaling all parts to fit and create someone who still looks like he belongs in the cockpit is the time monster. Too big? Too small? Just fine? Input is welcome here.

The files come as head(s), body full, body plus separate legs, and arms-pilot, arms-gunner. It is kinda fun fitting each of the modified parts as those become one whole figure. There will be post-print processing, prime, fill, sand, painting and weathering, but that's like any other after-market pilot. More when there is more. Best, LB

To quote Goldilocks when finally tasting Baby Bears Porridge, "Ohh Nice, This ones Just Right"! Or something like that. Looks to be the perfect scale, but coming from me (who put a behemoth in his Corsair), that may not be the best counsel!

[Elbee]

Hi Ya'll, been busy, but managed to start pilot recruitment (printing). This figure is detailed and prints well with a .25 mm nozzle. Scaling all parts to fit and create someone who still looks like he belongs in the cockpit is the time monster. Too big? Too small? Just fine? Input is welcome here.

The files come as head(s), body full, body plus separate legs, and arms-pilot, arms-gunner. It is kinda fun fitting each of the modified parts as those become one whole figure. There will be post-print processing, prime, fill, sand, painting and weathering, but that's like any other after-market pilot. More when there is more. Best, LB