The flight of the prototype took place on May 29, 1940, and the US Navy received its first serial Corsair on July 31, 1942. The key was to place the clunky landing gear in the inverted, crooked wings that became the hallmark of the aircraft.
the Pratt-Whitney Double Wasp engine) into the smallest possible airframe. Chance Vought took on the challenge, with the goal of fitting the most powerful of the available engines (i.e. The revolutionary design of the F4U Corsair was created in 1938 in response to the request of the US Navy to design a high-speed fighter stationed on board aircraft carriers. Detailed fuselage&wing w/accurate design The kit consists of over 190 parts, clear parts 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. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War.
