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

[davegee]

Outstanding looking Corsairs, exceptional work guys. The only thing it needs now is the Elbee operating engine cowls. You both have the expertise to do the operating cowls, but if you want to take a quick and cheap shortcut, you can do something like I did (the cheap shortcut King ). Used some .060 polystyrene sheets and made my own engine cowls and inlaid it into the foam. After I finished, my only regret was that I didn't make them big/long enough, but for now, it was sufficient. :hugging:

Those look good, Hugh. I have thought about doing cowl flaps for my Corsair. Would look better wtih them than the OEM look. I have done functional cowl flaps on two of my larger scale P-47 gassers back in the day that were on the contest circuit. They were very popular and it was nice having control of them with a servo to put them where I wanted during flight or ground operations.I haven't closed the door on that for the Corsair, but might try them on a different fuselage to test it out. Not sure if I'll get around to doing that at this stage of the game, though...

[davegee]

My brother sees me on the squark regularly..
We got talking about the old WW2 movies we used to watch.
.. the subject of shotgun starts came up.. so thought ide ask the team if it was a real thing... Sure it was.. anybody no anything :face_with_monocle:

Hi Craig: If you're talking about using a special cartridge to fire to get the prop turning to start, absolutely they did! I know some earlier models of the Spitfire had them, and the Corsair did, especially in the far-flung reaches of the South Pacific islands. I had a good friend who has since passed, but his dad was a marine Corsiar mechanic in the Solomon Islands during WWII. According to him, they used the cartridge strarts on their land-based Corsairs on a regular basis. Hope that helps if I understood your question.

G'Day!

Davegee

[f4u ausie]

As always my good friend (the early riser. Elb). Came to the party...have not heard of anything about Coffman.. just remember the almost goes then bang it's going.

Reckon it was a black and white we had in mind( movie). As always thanx. Elb. Maybe Ronald Reagan

[Elbee]

My brother sees me on the squark regularly..
We got talking about the old WW2 movies we used to watch.
.. the subject of shotgun starts came up.. so thought ide ask the team if it was a real thing... Sure it was.. anybody no anything :face_with_monocle:

Craig,

What that might refer is 'cartridge' charges used to turn over radial engines.

I googled it and found this: A Coffman Starter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman_engine_starter

Best, LB

[f4u ausie]

My brother sees me on the squark regularly..
We got talking about the old WW2 movies we used to watch.
.. the subject of shotgun starts came up.. so thought ide ask the team if it was a real thing... Sure it was.. anybody no anything :face_with_monocle:

[Hugh Wiedman]

A few more just 'cause. These were taken by Dave Gee!


Love them!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Outstanding looking Corsairs, exceptional work guys. The only thing it needs now is the Elbee operating engine cowls. You both have the expertise to do the operating cowls, but if you want to take a quick and cheap shortcut, you can do something like I did (the cheap shortcut King ). Used some .060 polystyrene sheets and made my own engine cowls and inlaid it into the foam. After I finished, my only regret was that I didn't make them big/long enough, but for now, it was sufficient. :hugging:

[jetfool]

Flew my Parkzone Corsair w/e-flite retracts. After a few years of not flying it, it still is a beautiful flying bird. When lowering flaps for landing the left flap foam hinge gave way and snap rolled left into mother earth. It was slow enough not much damage but reminded me that the FL Corsair has plastic hinges and don't think they would fail. Just sayin.

Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

It serves you correctly, I just cropped it a bit to try and match it. Reminds me of how much work went into it, just as all the guys did with theirs as well. Funny how this airplane inspires this modder madness!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[f4u ausie]

Absolutely exceptional ..
That first pic was from when alpha released it. What a difference. If my memory serves me correctly !!!?

[Grossman56]

A good comparison . Before and after!


Couldn't resist!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)_

[Aros]

Gorgeous!

[jetfool]

Two fantastic airplanes. Dan, your Corsair is a great SW Pacific faded bird. Congratulations.
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

A few more just 'cause. These were taken by Dave Gee!


Love them!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Elbee]

Grossman56

Beautiful and congrats.

Best, LB

[Grossman56]

Flight report:
After changing transmitter and receiver and going with the 10 channel Lemon and the Hobby Eagle A3L, she was taxied around to get directional control centered, taxied out and thoroughly range checked and with that, it was now or never time. She hopped into the air very smoothly, gear up and some small amount of trimming, a couple of clicks at most on ailerons and elevator. With the A3L set at about 50% and in low rates she flew perfectly, very similar to the Spitfire. I actually copied the D/R and Expo from the Spitfire which I also fly on low rates, this is great because now I can tweak the mid and high rates to see if it improves or not Flaps and gear dropped and no elevator retrim, she lined up with the runway and landed like a lady. With the barn doors hanging down, she does require a bit more throttle than the Spit but she makes up for it with that wide stance landing gear and the Robart tires make her literally stick to the ground. My first successful flight with her and so much better than the first one!!
I want to experiment around with the positioning of the 5000 battery, if I can get good results with her back about 1/2", I should be good to go with the 4500's which I have a few.


Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

The boys ready to taxi out....

Dave has the flight photos as well as some of Big Beautiful Doll flying, which considering she's12 or so years old is a rare thing for some reason.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

Got Dangerous Dan in the air today but not after some great photo shots

[jetfool]

beatlerat,
Your Corsair is beautiful. Most won't know the difference between what color the little numbers should be. Enjoy it as is.
Best Regards, Rex

[beatlerat]

So I kind off screwed this up. FF75 was painted with white letters, and when I put the numbers on, I wasn't even thinking of being scale. FF57 and FF59 are scale planes with the yellow numbers. I have found the squad that carried these numbers, but not a list of numbers that actually existed. No worries, I'll fly it as is and not worry about it.

[Elbee]

beatlerat

This is a screen shot from the Tamiya 1/32 F4u Corsair model kit.

So there's a start at finding your exact airframe.

Best, LB