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CORSAIR FG-1D - GOODYEAR BUILT
CFS3 - V2.83.64
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CORSAIR FG-1D - GOODYEAR BUILT
CFS3 - V2.83.64
This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using version 2.83.64 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the outstanding CORSAIR FG-1D visual created by Anthony GRAMPS Sullenger. Dynamic Virtual Cockpit is by Ed Wilson.
GRAMPS painted his plane as BU#-57530 in the livery of the VMF - 312 Checkerboarders (originally known as Day's Knights) & flown by 1st Lt. M.O.Chance.
Marine Fighting Squadron 312 (VMF-312), was commissioned at Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina on June 1st 1943. Most of the original officers of the 312 were brought over from VMF-311 or Headquarters Squadron 31, which was based at Cherry Point, North Carolina. The first aircraft flown by VMF-312 was the SNJ-4 Texan, but by the end of August, the squadron had transitioned to the Corsair and received a large influx of pilots fresh from PreOperational training.
In March of 1945, VMF-312 was moved to Okinawa. The ground element arrived April 6th and went to work preparing the camp and engineering area for the arrival of the aircraft. Three days later on the 9th, Corsairs from the 312th landed at Kadena airstrip on Okinawa.
On April 12th, 1945 VMF-312 had its first contact with the enemy. While flying CAP, a flight of four Corsairs, led by Capt. Dan H. Johnson, intercepted 20 Mitsubishi Zeros and four Jills (single engine torpedo-equipped attack aircraft). The outcome was a incredible 8 Zeros downed and six others damaged, while not one Corsair was lost. The rest of the enemy formation fled home without reaching their target. Engagements with the JAF continued and by the end of April VMF-312 had tallied 17 victories while only losing 1 Corsair piloted by Capt. Kenneth L. Reusser. Capt. Reusser successfully ditched his F4U off the west coast of Okinawa after sustaining damage from antiaircraft fire in an attack on Japanese targets south of Naha, the capital city of Okinawa on the southern tip of the island. The good fortunes on losses did not continue for long. On May 6th, enemy antiaircraft fire killed 2nd Lt. Fred G. Skrederstu, Jr., on the same day 1st Lt. George S. Karl died attempting to ditch after his Corsair developed engine trouble. 1st Lt. M.O. Chance's Corsair #530 was lost as well when 2nd Lt. Howard Ferguson Jr., damaged by antiaircraft fire, was forced to ditch.
Designed by Beisel and Sikorsky, the F4U is regarded by many as one of the greatest combat aircraft in history, and was in production for a longer period of time than any US fighter other than the F4 Phantom. As conceived it was intended to mount the most powerful engine, and biggest propeller, of any fighter in existence, and the prototype was the first US combat aircraft to exceed 400mph.
However, early experience suggested that the design was in fact a disastrous failure, especially for carrier operations. The extraordinarily long nose interfered with visibility ahead in a way which particularly caused problems during landing and take-off. The undercarriage had a tendency to break, and the aircraft also had an inclination to bounce alarmingly on landing. As a result the US Navy at first rejected it for shipboard operation. Nonetheless the F4U was adopted by the Marine Corps and quickly demonstrated its effectiveness.
Although its low rate-of-turn made it a very limited dogfighter its merits more than compensated for this and its other faults. Its great power, speed and rate of climb, its capacity to roll very rapidly, combined with a powerful armament - and large ammunition supply - and a quite exceptional resistance to battle damage, meant that in early 1943 ( in the Solomons) it quickly demonstrated its great superiority over the enemy fighters. By the end of hostilities in the Pacific War it had established an 11:1 "kill" ratio against Japanese aircraft.
At a time when the US Navy still considered it unsuitable for carrier use it was provided to the British Fleet Air Arm under Lend-Lease. The British Navy was desperately short of suitable high-performance fighters and therefore persevered with the Corsair, despite its problems, and the Fleet Air Arm's pilots quickly learned to cope with some of the aircraft's idiosyncracies. In any event improved versions, which amongst other things corrected the faults in the undercarriage, were later to became available.
The US Navy finally adopted the F4U as a shipboard fighter-bomber in November 1944, and by early 1945 large numbers were operating from the fast carriers of the Pacific Fleet - although the longer-established and very capable Grumman F6F Hellcat remained somewhat more numerous aboard the carriers right up to the war's end.
However, while the F6F was phased out shortly after World War Two the Corsair continued in service, and new versions were developed. The F4U was used extensively in the Korean War, and production continued until December 1952, by which time 12,571 had been built. Gramps.​