can somebody explain corsair variants to me

[zan64]

so ive been eyeing the milviz corsair for a year now, and it is a FG1D (British Mk IV) https://milviz.com/flight/products/FG1D/index.php

 

so wikipedia clarifies nothing, i get that the FG1D is the goodyear production, but of what? the F4U-1 (Mk I) or the F4U-1A (Mk II)? And where does the Brewster (Mk III) production fit in?

 

or is the FG1D its own thing seperate from the others in the finer details?

[LukeFF]

3 hours ago, zan64 said:

so wikipedia clarifies nothing, i get that the FG1D is the goodyear production, but of what?

 

It's just Goodyear's license production of the F4U-1D. 

 

3 hours ago, zan64 said:

And where does the Brewster (Mk III) production fit in?

 

That's their license production of the -1 and -1D (but why would you want to fly a Brewster Corsair? ?). 

[Bremspropeller]

11 hours ago, zan64 said:

or is the FG1D its own thing seperate from the others in the finer details?

 

As Luke already pointed out, it's basicly the same thing as the F4U-1D. Maybe with slight differences.

It's all down to the Navy doing things different, like designating airplanes.

 

Look at it this way:

F4U means "Fighter" / fourth design of that category by the company / U = Vought

FG means "Fighter" / first design (actually just license built), hence no number / G = Goodyear

 

The "-1D" is similar as it denotes the subversion of the model, which is the same.

 

You can see a similar thing with the Grumman TBF / TBM (the latter being built by General Motors).

It has no links at all to the TBM (six-seating single-engine turboprop) of today.

[zan64]

hey guys big thanks! that -1D thing went right past me..... now i realize theres a logic to the navy names lol

[Jaws2002]

5 hours ago, zan64 said:

now i realize theres a logic to the navy names lol

Let's not get ahead of ourselves now..... They are calling a 25mm, Bushmaster auto cannon  "Machine gun".

 

  ?

Edited November 2, 2021 by Jaws2002

[LukeFF]

5 hours ago, Jaws2002 said:

Let's not get ahead of ourselves now..... They are calling a 25mm, Bushmaster auto cannon  "Machine gun".

 

Ehm, no they are not.

[Vig]

The Brewster corporation had a bad reputation after wartime expansion because of an inferior, unmotivated work force, illegal strikes, and allegations of sabotage.  The Navy essentially took over management early in the war but nobody wanted to fly what came out of that factory.  The earlier F2A's were not affected by this but the factory layout was intrinsically inefficient - e.g., the Buffalo wing assembly was made on one story of the the Queens factory and was moved by elevator to be mated with a fuselage.  IIRC there was not an airfield adjacent to the factory and this introduced further complications.  The whole setup was so FUBAR that I wonder if the dismal performance of the Buffalo was not more a matter of misassembly than intrinsic design flaws.  

[Jaws2002]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

Ehm, no they are not.

https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2167836/mk-38-25-mm-machine-gun-system/

 

"

General Characteristics

Primary Function: 25 mm single barrel, air cooled, semi- and full-automatic, remotely and manually trained and elevated main machine gun system."