T Bolt
Colonel
User Name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Hasegawa AU-1 Corsair
Scale: 1/48th
Accessories: Wine bottle foil seat harness, scratch-built centerline bomb rack, Warbird decals for the bombs, and bombs from my spares box
The AU-1 was the last of the Corsairs, first produced in 1952, serving in the Korean war and being retired in 1957. It was developed from the F4U-5 and was a ground-attack version made for the U.S. Marine Corps with extra armor to protect the pilot and fuel tanks, a simplified single stage, manually controlled supercharger due to its anticipated low-level operation, and extra racks to carry more underwing ordinance. A fully combat loaded AU-1 would weigh 20% more than a fully loaded F4U-4.
AU-1 Corsair BuNo-129378 used by the Marines as seen at NAS Quantico in the late '50s. These were the last of the U.S. operated Corsairs.
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Hasegawa AU-1 Corsair
Scale: 1/48th
Accessories: Wine bottle foil seat harness, scratch-built centerline bomb rack, Warbird decals for the bombs, and bombs from my spares box
The AU-1 was the last of the Corsairs, first produced in 1952, serving in the Korean war and being retired in 1957. It was developed from the F4U-5 and was a ground-attack version made for the U.S. Marine Corps with extra armor to protect the pilot and fuel tanks, a simplified single stage, manually controlled supercharger due to its anticipated low-level operation, and extra racks to carry more underwing ordinance. A fully combat loaded AU-1 would weigh 20% more than a fully loaded F4U-4.
AU-1 Corsair BuNo-129378 used by the Marines as seen at NAS Quantico in the late '50s. These were the last of the U.S. operated Corsairs.