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 Post subject: F2G help required
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:14 am 
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Hi

I'm trying to find as much information as i can on the F2G super corsair so i can build a large scale model. Drawings with sections would be a great help but any general info would be a bonus. I've collected as much as i can from google.

If any of you can help or point me in the right direction that would be great.

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These threads may be of interest and assistance.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_16712 ... tm#1671250

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_13192 ... tm#1319293


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Look thru ArmyJunk's sticky. there are a lot fo pics of F2G's in there. IIRC

There is a awesome "Detailed Photo Essay' on F2G's

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Here is a link to some fantastic plans that you can use for a basic Corsair.


http://www.clevelandairline.com/ASP/LIST.asp

Just click on Vought and Fighter and WW2 in the pull downs and it will direct you to 2 sets of Corsair plans.



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Worth a look at http://www.taichiunlimiteddrawings.com/

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Good luck.

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Gosh.....Where to start.................


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For the superdetailer in your life...... The interior paint was left "stock" in the racers.

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So all of you don't have to go thru the trouble of making it (restored from the origional that was on #57 in 1949) ........

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There is a drawing, with sections in the April 1958 "Model AirPlane News", "planes worth Modeling" section. I would post it but it's copywrited. E-mail me if you don't have it.

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Thanks for the help guys, first class effort.

Cheers

Ben


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Ooooh, this is some AWESOME info... thank you SO much for posting the manual scans with the finish specs!!! And since we're on the topic, was it SOP for Cook Cleland to retract the flaps on his F2Gs after a race? I've got the new Special Hobby kit of "race 57" in the pile, and have been toying with the idea of swapping the wing out from another Corsair kit to have dropped flaps. If he usually retracted them, however, I won't bother.

Thank you once again!

Lynn

(PS: Is there a digital copy of the F2G manual somewhere available for download?)


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Cook's racers, except #57 had the flaps fixed in the up position. The hindges were removed to eliminate drag.

#57 was "sold" to McKillian for the race and did not have the same modifications. It was raced as basically stock. It came with the carburator extension that was borrowed from the Navy by Cook in 1947.

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Thanks for the help Kenn, please check your pm box

Ben


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Rodney Williams has an 1/32 conversion set.

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/preview ... resin.html


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