the lancaster kicks ass
Major General
- 19,937
- Dec 20, 2003
Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
ceilin feet, 41,500 feet (sorry, private joke)
Anyone see a problem with this statement from the website? Supposedly the first missions were before there was even a Corsair squadron....Tirpitz was 1944.The Royal Navy were the first, operationally, to use Corsair's on Aircraft Carriers and their first action was against the German Battleship "Tripitz" in March 1943. The first Royal Navy Corsair Squadron, No. 1830, was formed at U.S.N.A.S. Quonset Point, Rhode Island on the 1st June 1943.
Hmm, Corsairs were launched from carriers quite easily, landing was the hard partThe British DID enable the Corsair to be launched from aircraft carriers!
The Corsair was originally intended for carriers - but the negative traits of the early Corsairs led the Navy to not put them on carriers originally, so the Marines got them.The Americans had the corsair designed and built originally (i'm fairly certain of this) as a land based aircraft for coastal defence kind of operations flying from shore
Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea said:the F4U's origin dated to early 1938 when the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics sponsored a design competition for a new carrier fighter.
You're quite wrongVought F4U Corsair said:In 1938 the US Navy ha ddecided that the time was long overdue to bring carrier-based aviation up to the same performance as land-based aircraft. On 30 June 1938 the US Navy ordered...the Vought XF4U-1
So be happy very early Corsairs had so many problems. And now, to continue (and off-topic, included solely because it makes fun of Seafires and Sea Hurricanes)The fighter had originally been ordered by the Navy for carrier use to replace the Grumman F4F, the Wildcat (Martlet to the Royal Navy), but it had proved to be such a handful in Fleet trials, and particularly in deck landing, that the new Grumman F6F - the Hellcat - had been adopted instead. This meant that the F4U - the Corsair - could now go to the shore-based squadrons of the Marine Air Corps, and to the Royal Navy, if they wanted it.
The Royal Navy accepted it willingly, since the only alternatives in sight were the Seafire and Sea Hurricane - and these were just not carrier material. Their range was pathetically limited, even with drop tanks, and worse still their structure, whilst perfectly adequate for airfield flying, was not up to the rough and tumble life of carrier decks. In both cases a heavy landing, caused either by the vessel's pitch or by the pilot's hamfistedness, often brought the undercarriage through the wings.
Hot Space said:Well let's settle this once and for all:
http://www.aviation-history.com/vought/f4u.html
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/f4u.html
http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/airwar/f4u/f4u.shtml
http://home.att.net/~historyzone/F4U-4.html
http://www.f4ucorsair.com/
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/aircraft/corsair.htm
http://www.compass.dircon.co.uk/F4U.htm
http://www.warbirdalley.com/f4u.htm
http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/f4u.html
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/F4U.html
http://www.zap16.com/mil fact/vought f4u corsair.htm
As you can see from these few Sites I've found, there isn't ONE mention of the Brits helping with the Design of the Corsair
Hot Space