Corsair F4U-1A

[papa 695]

A job well done Michael

[Guest]

Lovely looking plane Michael. The weathering looks great.

Tony

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Great looking plane Mike. Well done.

Steve

[yak face]

Great job michael , I always love to see a corsair! cheers tony

[colin m]

Nice result. I'm off to youtube to listen to a Corsair on start up.

[michaelm]

Thanks for all the comments guys. Colin the Corsair was apparently a very quiet aircraft in flight, the Japanese nick-named it 'whispering death'.

[Guest]

Wow that came out great Michael! Just the right amount of chipping without being overdone for the subject too! Very nicely done Sir!!!

[aaron]

Looks awesome Michael.

[colin m]

Nice result. I'm off to youtube to listen to a Corsair on start up.

Very true Michael, but on start up, a rotary engine that size - really does sound quite nice.

[flyjoe180]

Very true Michael, but on start up, a rotary engine that size - really does sound quite nice.

There is a difference between a radial engine and a rotary engine. Where the cylinder bank is fixed (as was typical of round engines from the decade prior to the Second World War onwards), the crankshaft turns inside fixed cylinder banks. Where the engine cylinders rotate around the crankshaft, the engine is known as a rotary engine; these were quite common on aircraft from the First World War and into the 1920s. The main advantage of a radial engine is you can have numerous banks of cylinders around a larger crank, producing more power. If you tried to increase the number of cylinder banks on a rotating engine, you would have uncontrollable swing in full power/low speed scenarios. Imagine the size of the rudder/fin/fuselage arm to control a 2,000hp Twin P&W Wasp!