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The Vought F4U Corsair was a carrier compatible fighter initially developed during World War 2.

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  • Vought F4U Corsair
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  • The Vought F4U Corsair was a carrier compatible fighter initially developed during World War 2.
  • It was powered by a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine and it had a top speed of about 683.9 km/h. The first production model was the F4U-1 Corsair and it had an armament that consisted of six 12.7mm MGs mounted in the wings. The Corsair could also carry 907 kg of bombs or 4 anti-aircraft rockets. The total combat weight of the F4U was 4074.1 kg empty and about 6350 kg fully loaded. It had a total length of 10 meters and a maximum range of 1,633 kilometers. The service ceiling of the Corsair was about 11,247 meters while the rate of climb was 9.5 meters per second.
  • The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured by Vought, in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (1942–53).
  • The prototype of the F4U was designed in 1938. The aims of the F4U development were to produce an aircraft with minimum air resistance and maximum speed. For that the most powerful engine being available at this time, the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, with a power of 1,324 kW (1,824 hp), was mounted in a fuselage, which was built to be as small as possible.
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Length
  • 10.1 m
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loaded weight main
  • 14000.0
  • 14670.0
Guns
  • ** 6 × 0.50 in AN/M2 Browning machine guns, 400 rpg or ** 4 × 20 millimetre M2 cannon
  • ** 4 × 0.50 in AN/M2 Browning machine guns, 400 rpg ** 2 × 0.50 in AN/M2 Browning machine guns, 375 rpg
climb rate main
  • 2890.0
  • 3870.0
number of props
  • 1(xsd:integer)
length alt
  • 10.1 m
  • 10.2 m
span main
  • 1249.68
emptyweight
  • 4025.0
Speed
  • 683.0
Produced
  • 1942(xsd:integer)
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height alt
  • 4.50 m
  • 4.90 m
Name
  • -86400.0
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type of prop
  • radial engine
length main
  • 1016.0
  • 1026.16
power alt
  • 1491.0
  • 1710.0
area main
  • 314.0
power main
  • 2000.0
  • 2325.0
height main
  • 449.58000000000004
  • 490.22
Wingspan
  • 12.4 m
span alt
  • 12(xsd:double)
  • 12.5 m
range main
  • 1015.0
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