F4U, AU1 (Vought), FG1, F2G (Goodyear), and F3A (Brewster) Corsair.

[Dizzyfugu]

Yup, this Corsair looks like "Bad news". Beauty pics and story soon to come, project just finished. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Finished and posted...  


1:72 Vought-CAC Corsair S(AW).1, '236'/WZ882, Royal Australian Navy, 806 Squadron/HMAS Melbourne, 1957 (Whif/Kit conversion) by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[Briar]

here's some cool F-2s.
http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/191060442#/d38nbld
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Armour/ShepStuff/Website/DrakaWB/F2G-2.gif
http://www.rendersworld.com/Reference/corsair/F2G-1D.jpg
http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/supercorsair_3v.jpg
http://images.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfiles/10766/Xv63755.jpg

here's a modeling job: http://www.ipmsusa3.org/reviews/Kits/Aircraft/spechobby_48_f2g/part_02/spechobby_48_f2g_02.htm

Brutish, I like that!  Fighters don't have to be pretty, looks like it's been hit with the ugly stick, then turned it on it's owner and bludgeoned them to death with it.

What? I think it's beautiful, but I do agree it did bludgeoned it's creator. The contra-rotating props with yellow tips always look good on a plane!!!

[Dizzyfugu]

It has a "British" beauty. It's a bit like this bonmot which I cannot correctly quote, but it's about European supercars (maybe from Top Gear?):

"A Ferrari looks fast - fast in a sense that it slices through the air. Then you have an Aston Martin: it also looks fast, but in a sense that it slices through brick walls."

Beauty is relative - but IMHO we have that Aston Martin feeling here

[nighthunter]

Posting it here, as well.

[Dizzyfugu]

Thanks a lot!

[nighthunter]

So, I posted Dizzyfugu's Corsair on shipbucket, and someone suggested using a turboprop, so I made a turbo-prop version. *Edited*

[nighthunter]

Just thought I'd throw this up here as well, a Goodyear F2G-1D "Super" Corsair

[AS.12]

Oh look what I found!  An Aéronavale Corsair with underwing SS-11s.  Caption notes that it was flying from Arromanches for a series of tests in the late 1950s.



Original page here: http://avions-de-la-guerre-d-algerie.over-blog.com/40-index.html

[NARSES2]

I've 2 of the Special Hobby Super Corsair's. one will be FAA (BPF) not sure about the other, but seeing that Turbo Corsair in Australian markings has given me an idea 

[wuzak]

I drew a Vulture Corsair a while back.



In my timeline the Vulture is not cancelled, but is given to a group of engineers from Armstrong-Siddeley on secondment to Rolls-Royce. They re-engineer the Vulture around Merlin blocks and heads and a short stroke crankshaft, giving a capacity of around 2750ci. The equivalent performance of thsi to the Merlin XX is just under 3000hp @ 3600rpm. (The Pennine with the same bore and stroke made 2750hp @ 3500rpm in 1944, and was air-cooled.)

The radiators would be mounted in the leading edge of the inner wing, where the intercooler and carby intakes for the F4U were.

[Dizzyfugu]

Oh look what I found!  An Aéronavale Corsair with underwing SS-11s.  Caption notes that it was flying from Arromanches for a series of tests in the late 1950s.

Yup, they tested it, and while if basically worked, guiding the missile while piloting an aircraft at low(!) level was a bit too much for practical use...

[rickshaw]

Oh look what I found!  An Aéronavale Corsair with underwing SS-11s.  Caption notes that it was flying from Arromanches for a series of tests in the late 1950s.

Yup, they tested it, and while if basically worked, guiding the missile while piloting an aircraft at low(!) level was a bit too much for practical use...

Particularly in the face of potential defences.   Anyway, SS11 was a bit short-ranged for aircraft use and the simple MCLOS (Manual Command Line of Sight) "bang-bang" guidance system was as you suggest a bit too much of a handful for a pilot who was also flying the plane.  Which is why the French first looked at using that weird aircraft, the name of which escapes me, which was a two-seater twin boomer, for SS11 missiles.  It was also why they developed in the end the SS12 missile - both longer ranged and SACLOS (Semi-Active Command Line of Sight) guidance.   

[PR19_Kit]

Which is why the French first looked at using that weird aircraft, the name of which escapes me, which was a two-seater twin boomer, for SS11 missiles.   

The Potez 75, an aircraft after Tophe's heart if ever there was one! 

[AS.12]

Found a little more about these tests from http://aerostories.free.fr/events/algerie/algerie03/


( Any translation errors are mine )


In each case the pilot fired around two kilometres from the target, at low altitude.He had to direct the rocket using a small stick at his right hand and continuing to fly the aircraft with his left hand.

Pilots were selected to be trained for an experimental qualification.

Despite very good results, this armament was never used by the Corsair in Algeria.


Instead the weapon was fitted to the Flamant with two pilots!

Edit: thanks for the discussion that led to the Potez 75!  Awesome machine.