Concepts, designs, engineering and finally building it...

[F4U-1]

Since Mark Allen M is always giving us a great collection of requested subject matter, I was reading another topic and instead of hijacking that topic how about a few(ok, a lot) of pictures of what it took to conceive, design, engineer and finally build all those WWII aircraft.
Ok Mark, do your magic...
Thanks in advance. Hopefully in all the pics we can get some ideas of how things might have been done. You know my interested aircraft.
Chuck

[Mark Allen M]

You bet I do Chuck

[Matt Gunsch]

Mark, you have blackmail fodder...Don't do it until he give us updates on the SBD and SB2C,

[Mark Allen M]

Ha! He knows there's a price to pay .... Because I know he can pay it

[Mark Allen M]

Chuck I'm going to see if I can do this some justice singling out the Corsair ... This could go on for some time
So here's a start ...

Complete History here and a spectacular website worth a good look.
http://f4ucorsair.com/history.html














XF4U-1


XF4U-1


XF4U-1


XF4U-1


F4U-1 wind tunnel


FG-1D


FG-1D


FG-1D


FG-1D


F4U-1 Corsair being made on the Vought-Sikorsky final assembly line


F4U-1 Corsair being made on the Vought-Sikorsky final assembly line


F4U-1 Corsair being made on the Vought-Sikorsky final assembly line






F4U-1 Guns 11 Aug 1942






F4U-1 Corsair at Stratford CT


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at Akron OH


F4U-1 Corsair at Stratford CT


Brewster F3A-1 Corsair in flight c 1943


Vought F4U-1D in the Vought Plant c 1944


Vought F4U-1D Corsair


Vought F4U-1D Corsair


Marine Corps F3A-1 aircraft of Marine Air Group 91 commanded by LCol Joseph M Renner MAG-91 Jan-May45 VMF-913 Aug-Nov 44 VMF-914 June-Aug 1945


F3A-1A of the Royal Navy is on the ground at NATC Patuxent River


FG-1A 14484 Factory c 1944


FG-1D Corsair aircraft of VF-43 are in flight at NAS Atlantic City NJ c 1945


Four (4) F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of VF-12


Four ( 4) F4U-1D Corsair aircraft are in flight formation near Moana Loa, HI.


Four FG-1D Corsair aircraft of VMF-213 MCVG-9 are in flight from USS Saidor CVE-117 near Hawaii c 1945

There's several photo & data sources to list so here's a few.
Tommy H. Thomason's great web blog http://thanlont.blogspot.com/
NMNA archives
SDASM archives
NARA archives
http://f4ucorsair.com/
Drew King's Stratford CT Corsair website.

[Rossco]

Cac 12 Boomerang fighter,16 weeks from drawing board to first flight..

[RV8er]

Great Corsair pics! One question though regarding the Royal Navy one posted towards the bottom captioned "F3A-1A of the Royal Navy is on the ground at NATC Patuxent River"... what's up with the wings on that one? I know that the Royal Navy Corsairs clipped a foot or two off the wingtips for more clearance below decks, but the wings on that one just look weird. Wider chord with minimal taper, plus the airfoil just looks fat all the way to the wingtips, no taper there either. Looks like wings for a Cherokee 140! Since this was at Pax River, was this an experimental wing configuration?

[Mark Allen M]

From what I understand it was some sort of high-lift wing program conducted by Brewster.