2017年2月13日 · The F4U was the first airframe ever designed from the outset to mount the R-2800 Double Wasp engine. When the prototype was completed it had the biggest and most powerful engine, the largest three-blade propeller, and the …

By February 1943, the new Chance Vought F4U Corsair had arrived with VMF-124. The squadrons first missions were not as successful as hoped, but the big, gull-winged fighter became the mainstay of the shore-based Marine Corps fighter organization. The first Corsair Marine ace was 1st Lieutenant Kenneth A. Walsh, a former enlisted pilot.

An F4U downs a JAAF fighter somewhere in the South Pacific Scoring goes - Destroyed / Probably Destroyed / Damaged If one of those categories shows two numbers separated with a hyphen ( - ) the exact number is not known & the score is considered to be within that range.

The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A.

f4u-4更換具二級二速機械增壓與甲醇注水加力裝置的r-2800-18w發動機，基本輸出2,100匹馬力，緊急加力輸出時可以在5分鐘內維持2,450匹馬力輸出；u4系列的極速可達到721公里（448英里），爬升率從u1的每分鐘884公尺（2,900英尺）增加為每分鐘1,180公尺（4,500英尺）。

The Marine Corps aces fought some of the hardest battles of World War Two in the Pacific, most notably the grinding struggle for Guadalcanal, where the few pilots of the 'Cactus Air Force' saved the

F4U is the military designation for Corsairs built by the Vought -Sikorsky division of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) until the end of 1942, afterwards by the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation.

The F4U-1 mounts the massive Pratt and Whitney R-2800 radial engine, generating 2000hp under standard combat power ASL. The variant in the game is something of a hybrid or later block of the -1, as her engine is equipped with WEP (apparently substituting for water-injection).

2023年10月2日 · In aviation history, few aircraft possess the distinctive and memorable profile of the Vought F4U Corsair. Known to aviation enthusiasts and wartime pilots as the “Bent-Wing Bird,” the Corsair’s iconic inverted gull-wing design has fascinated, puzzled, and captivated onlookers for decades.

On the Nov. 11, 1943 strike at Rabaul (also known as the Battle of the Solomon Sea) Kepford downed four enemy aircraft, for which he was awarded the Navy Cross. Flying cover for the carriers in Roger Hedrick's flight, he lit into a gaggle of Kates. Flying through Bunker Hill's intense AA, he downed a Kate only 1,000 yards from the ship.