I’ve been having fun with low-cost, quick-to-build, and easy-to-fly foamie profile electric warbirds and decided to try for an easily built foam wing, using my “standard” foam wing cores for these models. Like most modelers and aviation fans, I always liked the Corsair, but never built one because I was scared of that gull-wing section construction. They flew F4U Corsairs from an island base in the South Pacific and were said to be pilots who were “a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific, known as the Black Sheep.” The series ran from 1976 through 1978.
The F4U Corsair was even the star of a TV series, Baa Baa Black Sheep, the story of Marine Corps pilot Greg “Pappy” Boyington’s fighter squadron VMF-214, the Black Sheep squadron. More than 5,000 Corsairs were eventually built by three companies: Chance Vought, Goodyear, and Brewster. A production contract was awarded in 1941 and the airplane entered service in 1942. The Navy started a design competition in 1938, and the Corsair first flew in 1940.
Most warbird fans know that the bent wing was used to accommodate the engine and propeller, at the time it was the most powerful engine and largest propeller ever used on a fighter. The inverted gull wing, the big round engine, and the huge propeller all identify Chance Vought’s Navy fighter. The F4U Corsair is one of the most easily recognized World War II fighters. Four-channel micro receiver four micro servos.150-watt brushless motor and 18-amp ESC.Construction: Sheet foam plywood hot-wire-cut foam wing
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