The Aerofoam F4U-Corsair
This is the Aerofoam F4U-Corsair. The Corsair has always been my favorite airplane, but I had never built or owned one due to the complexities of the wing structure. Well, that problem has been solved!
The Corsair is constructed entirely from E.P.P. and coroplast with a Baltic birch spar. The airframe goes together very fast due to the simple construction techniques using contact cement and other common adhesives. That bent wing assembly that had always scared me away in the past, now takes less than 20 minutes to complete (both panels!!!).
The fuselage is not a profile cut, it comes in 2 pieces; the rounded nose block and the conical tail block. All you have to do is glue them together and shape the canopy and round the edges at the nose. There is very little sanding required to produce a very scale fuselage.
This plane is very scale. It is one of the most scale foamies to date. The Corsair has an awesome commanding presence even when it is standing still. The first time I positioned the fuselage on the wing assembly while I was building the prototype, The hair on the back of my neck stood up! It was such an awesome site even without any covering. (others have admitted to such feelings upon seeing Corsairs, so I know I'm not totally loony). When in the air, this plane flies very scale. It looks bigger than most of the other war birds even though it has a 49" wingspan. It will execute a very scale Corsair roll and it carries it's energy well through turns and loops. This plane will do very big maneuvers without running out of energy. It also is capable of very high "G" turns that are quite surprising. This plane is extremely damage resistant, It has been referred to as "Zagi proof". Due to it's stability and energy retention, most attackers commit suicide by bouncing off of Corsair while it passes by as if nothing happened!
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