Wish someone would do this....

[skyhawka4m]

and I think it would be a perfect fit with the new Bearcat....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhpMMg03o8

[gradyhappyg]

You mean the paint or the plane?
Here are some paints that are close for the A2A/aircraft factory F4U.

http://nathansfsxrepaints.webeden.co.uk/#/f4u-corsair/4537268227

[skyhawka4m]

I have the A2A aircraft but we need a good LATE corsair....everyone has done the early....a nice late F4u-5N would be very nice.

[BOOM]

Interesting how in the vid The F4U is carrying a fuel tank only on the port side,is this to equalize the weight on the wings with the large radar pod?

I find myself flying the A2A F4U alot,it's quite a challenge to land on short airfields let alone a aircraft carrier,I would love if A2A would rebuild this bird from the ground up and give it the Accusim treatment we all know it deserves.But looking at A2A's current line-up,It doesn't look like it's in the pipeline anytime soon.

[skyhawka4m]

Yes I believe thats the thought behind the single fuel tank.'

I agree and also love the A2A aircraft just hoping for a late variant.....even an F4u-4 would be nice.....but I'm a 5N, AU-1 fan big time.

[Helldiver]

Is that the same Dan McCue from Rochester, New Hampshire Skyhaven Airport. He used to fly an Russian LA-7.
He was the first one that brought a L-39 over here from Russia. He had to pay a Russian Colonel hard cash (US funds) for it.
All the F4U-5/N never needed an fuel tank to off set the radome. No more than the SB2C or the F6F-5/N needed a extra fuel tank using the same radar. None I saw operational needed them.

[Bomber_12th]

That's correct Helldiver, though it wasn't an La-7, it was a Yak-9. Here's an old video of one of his classic performances in the Yak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89hUfmnBuM

Skyhawk, just for the record, I'd love to make an F4U-5 - it is very high on my list of projects, if I ever get to them - I only wish I could get more projects done, in shorter time-spans. :) I would like very much to somehow acquire a roughly complete collection of original engineering drawings, if I can, before seriously considering it.

[SADT]

Here's to a late model F4U-4/5! Or any other WWII USN aircraft for that matter..... :jump:

We really do need an Accusim type F4U....... Could be a while before A2A comes around though...... :P:

[skyhawka4m]

That's correct Helldiver, though it wasn't an La-7, it was a Yak-9. Here's an old video of one of his classic performances in the Yak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89hUfmnBuM

Skyhawk, just for the record, I'd love to make an F4U-5 - it is very high on my list of projects, if I ever get to them - I only wish I could get more projects done, in shorter time-spans. :) I would like very much to somehow acquire a roughly complete collection of original engineering drawings, if I can, before seriously considering it.


HMMM?? I may have to look through my stuff here. I know I have F4U-5 line drawings here that are very good somewhere. They also include the AU-1 which had a different engine/cowling.

[Helldiver]

It was a radial engined La-7 and it was 16 years ago. He must have gotten the Yak after I moved to Newburyport. He was an American Airlines pilot and tended to be kind of heavy-handed around Skyhaven airport. The pilots were not too happy with him spraying their airplanes with the jet exhaust from his L-39s.
There was a woman selectman that told him she had never ridden in an a airplne. About 5 minutes later he had her flying upside down in a L-39, twenty fett over the runway.

[mal998]

Here is a re-paint of A2A Corsair...

Man, what a beauty!

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/4072010_9_28_15_39_10_218.jpg

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/2102010_9_28_15_39_0_357.jpg

[stansdds]

Interesting how in the vid The F4U is carrying a fuel tank only on the port side,is this to equalize the weight on the wings with the large radar pod?

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I don't really think the drop tank on the port pylon was to offset the weight of the radar pod as Helldiver pointed out, other aircraft equipped with wing mounted radar (including the F4U-2) did not do anything to offset the weight, although the outboard machine gun was removed from the starboard wing of the F4U-2. Photos of F4U-5N and -5NL's in Korea usually show them with a drop tank on the port pylon, the starboard pylon usually carried a bomb and either rockets or bombs were carried on the wings for air-ground ops.

The F4U is my all-time favorite WW II and Korean War fighter. I'd love to see then entire Corsair line represented in FSX and done with AccuSim style realism in operation.

[Naki]

It was a radial engined La-7 and it was 16 years ago. He must have gotten the Yak after I moved to Newburyport.

It can't of been a Lavochkin as the only airworthy Lavochkin in the world since WW2 is a LA-9 until recently was a resident here in NZ (and has also been in the UK)...it has recently been shipped to the US..maybe it was a radial engined Yak?

[skyhawka4m]

see...this is why we need and F4U-5.....the Four Horseman flying here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZkqV1NXxY

[Bomber_12th]

Except of course, that is why we also need an F4U-4. ;)
The -4 seen flying with the Horsemen, owned by Tom and Dan Friedkin, being the nicest F4U-4 you're likely to find on the planet - and a very interesting, and accurate paint scheme to boot.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee49/rjpia/DSC05116.jpg

[skyhawka4m]

opps!!! :salute:

[Helldiver]

I was told that it was a La-7 that Dan flew. How was I to know? Under Stalin what ever they flew was nobody's business. All we knew was they flew P-40s and P-39s under lend-lease.. It was rumored, by the Germans, that they actually had women pilots flying combat missions. How uncivilized. We used women pilots to ferry airplanes and to make cookies.

[Bjoern]

It was rumored, by the Germans, that they actually had women pilots flying combat missions.

Those weren't rumours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Russian_and_Soviet_military

Emancipation hooray!

[Helldiver]

Emancipation be damned. Any man that takes a beed on a woman is no man.

[Bone]

Emancipation be damned. Any man that takes a beed on a woman is no man.

So, hypothetically, if there was an enemy female soldier who had already taken out some of your buddies in a firefight, and you saw her in your rifle scope, you wouldn't pull the trigger?

[delta_lima]

http://www.nsxprime.com/photopost/data/500/ThreadDirection.jpg

Anyways ... segweying back - yes, SH, I too would love to see a '5 or '7 Corsair, or even a AU-1. Korean War birds, whether prop or jet, are always welcome!! I'm just thrilled the Bearcat is out ... hopefully, the Tigercat will follow.

I checked out Nathan's repaints - they're outstanding. The VMF-214 paint is superb. Again, it's technically on the wrong model - but certainly the next best thing, having the A2A Corsair as a platform.

dl

[Bjoern]

Emancipation be damned. Any man that takes a beed on a woman is no man.

Combatant is combatant, be it old or young, male or female, animal or man.




segweying

Keeping the recent death of that Segway boss in mind, I wouldn't do that. :d