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Design and development

The aircraft is a single place, single engine gull-wing design with retractable conventional landing gear. The F4U was the second completed aircraft in the W.A.R. series, with the first example displayed at the EAA airshow in 1975. The aircraft featured folding wings.

Operational history

A WAR F4U built by Fred Bauer Jr. was featured as the cover plane on the January 1980 ''

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''. The plane was built from plans that cost $145.

Variants

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Specifications (W.A.R. F4U Corsair)

Notes

References

* Taylor, John W. R. ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1988–89''. Coulsdon, UK:Jane's Defence Data, 1988. . * * * * * * *

External links

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