Huey Gunner Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Question to the Corsair guru's. Did the F4U use the same landing gear struts and wheels throughout production? At least to the F4U-1D. Thank you for your time and answers. Edited December 8, 2013 by Huey Gunner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennings Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Never heard otherwise... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DonSS3 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I haven't heard anything to make me think otherwise. What makes you think there may be a difference? Not trying to start a flame war, I'm just curious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Huey Gunner Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 No flame war happening here. Just looking at the G-Factor struts and Eduard Brassin Tires and Wheels in anticipation of Tamiya releasing −1D and Mama was bugging me for a Christmas wish list. Thank you all for your help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennings Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Structurally, except for the cockpit and other very minor things, the F4U-1, -1A, and -1D were essentially the same airplane, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't have had the same landing gear. I don't even know that the later variants had any major difference in the gear design. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoff M Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Question to the Corsair guru's. Did the F4U use the same landing gear struts and wheels throughout production? At least to the F4U-1D. Thank you for your time and answers. I remember reading that the big beef for the Navy with the early F4U was the landing gear caused a significant bounce on carrier landings which caused the plane to miss the wires. That and poor visibility over the nose is why they were shore based for the first few years. Vought did tweak the landing gear to get them carrier qualified. Don't know if that was a visible change or just a different tension on the MLG suspension? I believe that showed up on the F4U-1D Geoff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Hegedus Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 The fixes for the bounce were internal - a change to a Schrader valve and adjusting the air/oil ratio if I remember right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
famvburg Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 The "fix" was deflating the MLG struts. That's why all real Corsairs there is little to no visible chrome oleo strut visible. Most plastic models show them extended to a point, which is inaccurate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennings Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 The "fix" was deflating the MLG struts. That's why all real Corsairs there is little to no visible chrome oleo strut visible. Most plastic models show them extended to a point, which is inaccurate. That's not correct. They made changes internally in the struts. You can't just deflate the struts and have them do what they're designed to do. If you don't have adequate shock absorption, things break. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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