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02-29-2004, 10:54 PM
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| Its -312, but from the cowl I thinks its a -5. It isn't really clear, but to me at least it looks like it has cheek air intakes as opposed to the -4 chin intakes.
Just checked a book (great idea to do every now and then  ) and it lists F4U-4s, 297 F4U-4Bs (20mm cannons) built, one F4U-4N that was a testbed for the -5N/-5NL radar/avionics, and 11 F4U-4P photorecon Corsairs.
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03-12-2004, 01:01 AM
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| WHY DO YOU KNOW SUCH TINY DETAILS ABOUT THE PLANE LIKE THE COWLS?!?!??!?!!
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03-12-2004, 01:30 AM
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| Because the cheek air intakes are a very noticeable difference between the -1s/-2, -4, and -5. Off the top of my head (I read it not too long ago) -1s/-2s had the intakes in the wing roots, -4s had one of the two intakes in the wing and had a cheek intake, while the ones remaining in the wing were enlarged, -5s had cheek intakes instead of the chin intake, I'm not certain about the AU-1 (XF4U-6) but I am pretty sure the intakes in the wing roots were recessed into the fuselage (air goes in the wing roots still, but the actually colling takes place in the fuselage), and I'm not sure about the -7s intakes.
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03-12-2004, 05:42 PM
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| Vought F4U-7 Corsair or "For French Only"
A two stage compressor was added, hence the appearance of a ventral air-intake like on the F4U-4.
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03-12-2004, 06:23 PM
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| IIRC it was a -5 airframe with a -4 engine (due to a surplus after WWII - making it cheaper for the US since the French procured the -7s under the US Military Assistance Program) I wasn't sure if they had cheek or chin intakes. The F4U-7s actually were obtained by the USN briefly before being shipped to France (from the way it was phrased, it sounded like they did this to keep the transfer within the MAP)
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03-12-2004, 08:12 PM
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| Probably Chin intakes like the F4U-4 intakes
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03-12-2004, 08:25 PM
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| I decided to not be so lazy and looked in my book (which was sitting three feet away all along  ), the AU-1 had no intakes around the engine and the -7 had the cheek intake. Anyone need to know my source for this?
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03-12-2004, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Archer I decided to not be so lazy and looked in my book (which was sitting three feet away all along ), the AU-1 had no intakes around the engine and the -7 had the cheek intake. Anyone need to know my source for this? | As the two-stage compressor had disappeared, the entries were filled but the bumps remained, also the exhaust pipes descend and are aligned on the bumbps of the former intakes (AU-1).
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03-12-2004, 11:30 PM
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| Can't wait to have a model of every variant to glance at to be sure of the differences
It'd be a lot easier 
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03-13-2004, 08:52 AM
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Country:  | bloody hell you two, that's why i like th lanc, only 3 marks, each one VERY distingishable *can't spell*..............................
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Country:  | there was more than 3 versions of the p.108 
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04-07-2004, 11:51 PM
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| The Lancaster may have been as good as a B-17F model But the B-17G model is the best of the 2 planes hands down. The B-17G had .50 caliber machine guns located everyplace possible. Why the British used the .303 caliber machine guns is a mystery. The .50 caliber projectile has longer range and better pentration then the .303. Also there were B-17's gunships equipped with 2 top turrets and extra ammo to guard the formations of bombers. The pictures of these B-17 model gunships are rare. Both of these airplanes did their job well but of the 2 airplanes I pick the B-17G as the best. | |
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04-11-2004, 01:24 PM
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Country: | yes but despite all them guns, they still got shot down in reams................
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04-11-2004, 10:32 PM
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04-11-2004, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass yes but despite all them guns, they still got shot down in reams................ | And yet, somehow, the amazing (miraculous, even) advent of the Lancaster brought to the RAF nothing but a bomber that couldn't even fly in day, it was so helpless....
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