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Aircraft Factory Corsairs
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Dumonceau
Banned
Hi,
This will not be in conjunction with A2A, so no Accusim. So sorry.
However, the code will be significantly enhanced.
I will ask about the clipped wings.
Thank you.
Kat
EDIT: Colin tells me that I have made a serious mistake. The product that we will be releasing is NOT a F4U-1A/C/D Corsair. You have my apologies.
This will not be in conjunction with A2A, so no Accusim. So sorry.
However, the code will be significantly enhanced.
I will ask about the clipped wings.
Thank you.
Kat
EDIT: Colin tells me that I have made a serious mistake. The product that we will be releasing is NOT a F4U-1A/C/D Corsair. You have my apologies.
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Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
Fantastic, Kat! Accusim is nice but I can live without it as long as the FDE is realistic. However, I hope it will be TacPacked.
Edit: only now I saw your latest post. Whatever you will release will be interesting!
Edit: only now I saw your latest post. Whatever you will release will be interesting!
Thanks for the new FDE, John!
Off to try it now!
Cheers,
Mark
Off to try it now!
Cheers,
Mark
DaveB
Charter Member
Hi,
I have been given the go-ahead to make the announcement.
We will be releasing in Q1 or Q2, the MV FG-1D Corsair. Tacpack is uncertain.
We have redone the VC completely and will be making a decision as to whether or not we redo the external UV's later this month. We will also be adding new tech including our night lighting and, possibly, including the Real Engine tech into the product. The soundset is being redone and the FDE will be tweaked a bit though Tom Falley (aka Fliger747) did a bang up job as far as we're concerned.
I will post pics later on today or tomorrow.
Thank you!
Kat
I have been given the go-ahead to make the announcement.
We will be releasing in Q1 or Q2, the MV FG-1D Corsair. Tacpack is uncertain.
We have redone the VC completely and will be making a decision as to whether or not we redo the external UV's later this month. We will also be adding new tech including our night lighting and, possibly, including the Real Engine tech into the product. The soundset is being redone and the FDE will be tweaked a bit though Tom Falley (aka Fliger747) did a bang up job as far as we're concerned.
I will post pics later on today or tomorrow.
Thank you!
Kat
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
The new FDE feels fine, but each time I land on a carrier and have almost come to a stop, the plane tips over on its nose very slowly. No matter how slowly I land, the problem persists. I also had it with the Seafury but not with the original AF Corsair files. Does anybody else have this problem, and is it perhaps related to Gray Eagle’s problem with the tailhook, as mentioned in another thread?<o
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Good news on the new release, Kat!<o></o>
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Regarding doing an update of the model - the FG-1D, being the exact same as an F4U-1D (a Goodyear-built F4U-1D) - when looking at the AF Corsair, the primary spots that need correcting include the tail gear, the canopy and windscreen, and the notch cut-out in the flap needs to be on the starboard/right side, not the port/left side. The canopy, from within the VC, could also use additional details. Scratch could go into a lot more detail about it all.
(All of the surviving clipped-wing RNZAF and RN Corsairs in the world today (flying and static), are versions of Goodyear-built FG-1D's, including the time capsule example on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum (which has a braced canopy), the original RNZAF Corsair ZK-COR that flies in New Zealand, and the other original RNZAF Corsair N43FG that has now been flying in the US since earlier 2014. Early F4U-1D's and FG-1D's had braced canopies like the F4U-1A/FG-1A.)
Regarding the existing aircraft materials, I've been more than pleased with the specular maps, but it definitely needs support for alpha channels in order to properly recreate the exact look of late-44/1945 glossy sea blue.
I've seen others in the past get confused about the "FG-1D", thinking it to be the "Super Corsairs", where in-fact those are the "F2G-1" and "F2G-2". The "FG-1D" is virtually identical to the "F4U-1D", but built under license by Goodyear. The Brewster company also built the F4U-1A/D Corsair under license, and it was called the "F3A-1", of which one still survives today, and is in the middle of a complete restoration to airworthy. There are no Vought-built F4U-1D's flying today, only Goodyear-built FG-1D's, of which there are several. There is one Vought-built F4U-1A that flies, operated by Planes of Fame, and of course a number of Vought-built F4U-4's, F4U-5's, and F4U-7's that fly today.
(All of the surviving clipped-wing RNZAF and RN Corsairs in the world today (flying and static), are versions of Goodyear-built FG-1D's, including the time capsule example on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum (which has a braced canopy), the original RNZAF Corsair ZK-COR that flies in New Zealand, and the other original RNZAF Corsair N43FG that has now been flying in the US since earlier 2014. Early F4U-1D's and FG-1D's had braced canopies like the F4U-1A/FG-1A.)
Regarding the existing aircraft materials, I've been more than pleased with the specular maps, but it definitely needs support for alpha channels in order to properly recreate the exact look of late-44/1945 glossy sea blue.
I've seen others in the past get confused about the "FG-1D", thinking it to be the "Super Corsairs", where in-fact those are the "F2G-1" and "F2G-2". The "FG-1D" is virtually identical to the "F4U-1D", but built under license by Goodyear. The Brewster company also built the F4U-1A/D Corsair under license, and it was called the "F3A-1", of which one still survives today, and is in the middle of a complete restoration to airworthy. There are no Vought-built F4U-1D's flying today, only Goodyear-built FG-1D's, of which there are several. There is one Vought-built F4U-1A that flies, operated by Planes of Fame, and of course a number of Vought-built F4U-4's, F4U-5's, and F4U-7's that fly today.
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Stickshaker, try something more like this [TailHook] section instead, replacing the one in the Tom Falley/Fliger747 Aircraft.cfg files.
[TailHook]
tailhook_length = 3
tailhook_position = -25, 0, 0
cable_force_adjust = 1
[TailHook]
tailhook_length = 3
tailhook_position = -25, 0, 0
cable_force_adjust = 1
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
I would love to learn more, if you can back it up with 1945 material. Sure, there were superficial differences between the two (F4U-1D/FG-1D) - placards, inspection stamps, construction numbers, and I'm sure other factory processes differed a bit, but the main airframe remained identical - perhaps a slightly later variant of the R-2800, however? I, as much as anyone, am interested in seeing a new/updated Corsair of WWII and post-WWII era, done accurately/faithfully.
Hi,
Quote from Colin: "as always John, your information is going to be very hard to disprove and is probably correct anyway. There are no manuals that clearly show any differences in any of the models. As well, the pics available on the net for the F4U-1D are so low rez as to be useless. The only really valid visual representation is a panorama of a FG1-D here: http://www.airspacemag.com/panoramas/fg-1d-corsair-180953750/
This is the plane that we used as our reference for the revamped VC"
Due to some issues with the original release, this will be for P3D 1.4 up. There will be no locks on the product. No further comments on that will be responded and or answered.
Thank you
Kat
Quote from Colin: "as always John, your information is going to be very hard to disprove and is probably correct anyway. There are no manuals that clearly show any differences in any of the models. As well, the pics available on the net for the F4U-1D are so low rez as to be useless. The only really valid visual representation is a panorama of a FG1-D here: http://www.airspacemag.com/panoramas/fg-1d-corsair-180953750/
This is the plane that we used as our reference for the revamped VC"
Due to some issues with the original release, this will be for P3D 1.4 up. There will be no locks on the product. No further comments on that will be responded and or answered.
Thank you
Kat
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
The dialog between John and Katoun over Corsair differences brings this to my mind. (A little levity here) 
I am very pleased to hear that the MilViz FG-1D will finally see the light of day! I think the flight sim world has needed an FG-1D for a very long time as most of the surviving -1 series of Corsairs are the FG-1D versions.
Externally, the FG-1D could be differentiated from the F4U-1D by the location where the MF/MHF radio antenna entered the fuselage. Vought continued to use the same spot for the -1, -1A, -1C/D, which was on the starboard side directly aft of the cockpit. A notch was cut into the back edge of the canopy frame to prevent the canopy for contacting the antenna. When Goodyear began to produce the -1D model, they moved the entry point to the port side and lowered the entry point to below the canopy track.
To my knowledge, Vought never installed a footstep in the starboard inboard flap of any of the -1 series Corsairs. Vought did incorporate a step in the F4U-4 design. Early production of the FG-1D may not have had the step either, but Vought was producing -4's for months while Goodyear was still fulfilling their -1D contract. I expect the flap with the step was incorporated sometime later in the production run of the FG-1D.
Inside the cockpit, I think the Vought and Goodyear -1D's were almost identical. From what I have found, there was a change in the electrical panel and the bomb arming switch panel, but otherwise they seem the same.
Externally, the FG-1D could be differentiated from the F4U-1D by the location where the MF/MHF radio antenna entered the fuselage. Vought continued to use the same spot for the -1, -1A, -1C/D, which was on the starboard side directly aft of the cockpit. A notch was cut into the back edge of the canopy frame to prevent the canopy for contacting the antenna. When Goodyear began to produce the -1D model, they moved the entry point to the port side and lowered the entry point to below the canopy track.
To my knowledge, Vought never installed a footstep in the starboard inboard flap of any of the -1 series Corsairs. Vought did incorporate a step in the F4U-4 design. Early production of the FG-1D may not have had the step either, but Vought was producing -4's for months while Goodyear was still fulfilling their -1D contract. I expect the flap with the step was incorporated sometime later in the production run of the FG-1D.
Inside the cockpit, I think the Vought and Goodyear -1D's were almost identical. From what I have found, there was a change in the electrical panel and the bomb arming switch panel, but otherwise they seem the same.