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By: - 19th February 2003 at 23:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
Put your fingers over the landing gear in that head on view and imagine the enemies view as one of those comes boring down on him - it looks awesome!!
By: - 20th February 2003 at 06:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-02-03 AT 06:38 AM (GMT)]It would've been a mongrel to land on a carrier though. Would have overhung each side of the flight deck. Landings would have been interesting when it reached the island - CRUNCH!!!
Regards
Wombat
By: - 20th February 2003 at 09:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
Oh I dunno - looks like it would still have had a smaller wingspan than the B25, and the Yanks managed to get a few of those off USS Hornet...
By: - 20th February 2003 at 12:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
Who got the idea first North American with the P-82 or Vought with this Twin Corsair?? Looks good though!
By: - 20th February 2003 at 18:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-02-03 AT 06:35 PM (GMT)]Ask and ye shall receive !
Cheers
Gary
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By: - 20th February 2003 at 20:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
Geedee is that a machine gun pack underneath the centre-section?
By: - 21st February 2003 at 14:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: Vought F4U-4 Twin Corsair
Yup. similar sort to that used on the twin Mustang
Cheers
Gary
By: - 4th March 2003 at 13:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Time to own up...I made it up with a scanned picture that was copied and reversed then stuck together with the aid of good ol' MS Paint....I did say I was on my second bottle of red at that time !
Gotta admit it looks as though it should have worked and if it ever did in real life instead of my imagination, it would have scared the living fertiliser out of whoever saw it coming towards them with all guns blazing !
Any other planes from the last big one that would look feasible if we did the same thing ?
Give it a try guys....I see someone did on the AFM forum with a twin Phantom !
Over to you
By: - 4th March 2003 at 13:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
OK... you had me fooled... but hang on... it's no-where near April 1st!!
It looks quite good though! Nice one!
By: - 4th March 2003 at 14:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
No worries mate
Hadn't thought of April 1st...yet....hmmmmm methinks perhaps a biplane concorde...naahhhh...tooo obvious...a six engined Sunderland ?.......hmmmm possible....we'll have to wait and see.
Still hoping that someone out there will do a version for Combat Flight Sim 2 though...hint hint.
By: - 4th March 2003 at 14:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Now that would be an idea! Wasn't there a forum member who made flight sim aircraft models? Bearcat perhaps??
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By: geedee - 19th February 2003 at 18:52
Yup, you heard right...a twin Corsair. Never actually got off the drawing board but this baby was penned in by Vought's designer Rex B Beisel and his engineering staff. Several designs where for a Naval fighter where produced in 1937 / 38, amongst them the Corsair you allready know. This was to be an experimental design (Copied on the same lines as the twin Mustang which went on to break vatious records for range and fire power) but the advent of the jet's deemed it unfeasable to proceed.
Boy, would I love to see thing flying !!!.
Actually, I'm half way through my second bottle of red (I'm a 'connoser' of wines see...there's Red, there's White and then there's Tesco's !!) and had a little play with my equipment to see what I could come up with. This is the result.
Now if only I can get someone to do a version for Combat Flight sim 2 ????
cheers
Gary
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