F4U-1 Corsair Construction Drawings Needed.

[Emilian]

Am looking for detailed measuements for the F4U-1 - cowl diameter, main wheel diameter, wing rib ordinates or stations, fuselage and wing rib cross-sections and geometry - contour lines with measurements. Can anyone help?

 

[GADGET]

See if this can help:

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And here do click over the F4U profile on the part you might be interested:

Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair Blueprints

 

[Emilian]

Thanks. Much obliged. One of the drawings has the oridinates for the fuselage station points - very useful. More numbers needed wing rib ordinates, tail, cowl and anything on the undercarriage.

 

[GADGET]

 

[Emilian]

Thanks Gadget, very nice of you to do this for me.

 

[GADGET]

If you have not seen those before, I suspect that you problably have not found all the plans from f4ucorsair.com. Those are the best set of blueprints on the net, AFAIK.

Let me include all the others for you:

You could also contact Chance-Vought for information. Is my believe that they keep a "historic" section where all this information should be available.

 

[GADGET]

From vought.com:

 

[bigmac]

Have found a better source here -

aircraft blueprint | aircraft manual | vintage aircraft | aircraft plan

 

[bentwings]

Thanks. Much obliged. One of the drawings has the oridinates for the fuselage station points - very useful. More numbers needed wing rib ordinates, tail, cowl and anything on the undercarriage.

My source of details usually comes from the really expensive plastic models. You need very close measurements and a scale factor. These are usually very well researched models as builders are meticulous. I build and fly giant scale Warbirds ....especially Corsairs. I'd like to build an F4U 5 variant. Mainly because the nose is longer so the motor weight is farther forward. You always need considerable weight to balance these so a bigger motor farther forward reduces useless weight replacing it with more power, so double edge gain..