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F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/21/2005 10:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		I recently purchased a pre-built, flown Great Planes F4U Corsair powered by a Saito 65 with a Futaba Skysport 6 channel radio. Hey, this is one easy to fly airplane; nothing hard about it. She may not be scale, but she looks like a Corsair and flies easy as a trainer!
This plane was built from a kit, but she's my kind of ARF. Try one, you'll like it. A scale Warbird officiando could easily make this kit more to their scale liking. Good luck!

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/21/2005 4:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have one too, Flak, and with the Magnum .80 4-stroke, it really screams. They're nice birds.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/21/2005 5:32 PM   
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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/21/2005 8:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have one also powered with a Y.S. .63. A perfect combination!

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/22/2005 12:40 AM   
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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/22/2005 3:00 AM   
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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/22/2005 3:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have one to Flak but I build mine from the kit. Yes it does fly easy but if you want scale it might not land or take off that easy, these are definitely not scale, especially the air foil.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/22/2005 3:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		These Corsairs are available ONLY as a kit. Landings were difficult until I bent the main gear forward 3/4". Now she doesn't nose over.



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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/22/2005 3:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Try landing with a little more power, this will assist you landing.
Top Flight has a nice 60 size kit that they just re-vamped.
Hanger-9 has a ARF and so do a few other companies but the other companies Corsair just don't look right, flying may not be right either.
For example, Lanier put's out a Phantom that does not fly right. My friend has one and the elevator is just way to big and awkward, the incidence is off and so on.
When we get good companies we should support them and stay away from the junk. I have a Phantom kit from Great lanes and it flies like a dream, it is put together right, the kit was excellent and it is more scale than not.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/23/2005 7:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lytehouse,
I agree, we should stay away from junk, which is why I don't have much faith in ARF's. They are mass produced, white glued, and not reinforced where they should be. There may be a few exceptions, but not many. My F4U was built from a kit.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/23/2005 9:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have one of those GP Corsair Kit's but I build it and it flies sweet. I just put a Thunder Tiger .46 on it and it has all the power it need's, for any dogfight with a zeke.
That is another thing that freaked me out about that spit kit ARF, there was no white glue or hot glue and everything is solid and light. I put a FS 70 Surpass 4 stroke and this plane haul's a**. My friend and I have put it through all the motions, he can do more than me and it is holding up nicely, no gluing needed yet.
I flew it again today, about 3 tanks of fuel in the first 20 minutes, still solid.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/26/2005 11:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's one I just finished with a few mods t the sides with a tower 46, flaps and custom muffler. She weighs in at 7#. Can hardly wait to get her out for her maiden.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/27/2005 12:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow aceholen(hmmm) that is the best looking .46 corsair I have seen yet, good work.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/27/2005 12:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oops ment to ask how did you finish it off, paint over solartex?

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/27/2005 2:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, thanks for the compliment, I fiberglassed and painted sealed with poly. Will try to get some video footage of maiden....... by the way the name is a golf thing .my other hobby.

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/27/2005 3:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		aceholen1, that's a very nice job!

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 6/28/2005 6:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		The nice thing about this size model is it will fit in a CAR!

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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 3/8/2006 9:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		mine didn't come with enough LE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but it does look like a great glider.



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RE: F4U Corsair - Great Planes - 7/27/2006 9:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		On towerhobbies.com i saw that the Great Planes Corsair F4U is not designed for using retracts. Is it possible to use them? If yes, which ones?

( http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXJ572&P=3 )

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