The Historical F4U Corsair is an American

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that was designed and produced by the Historical Aircraft Corporation of

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. The aircraft is a 60% scale replica of the original

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and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 176. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.

Design and development

The aircraft features a cantilever

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gull wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable

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and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing covered in a shell of polyurethane foam and

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. Its span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the

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V-6 automotive conversion powerplant. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is . The aircraft has fairly lengthy runway requirements with a standard day sea level take-off distance of and a landing distance of . The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, instruments and

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. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.

Specifications (F4U)

References

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