The short kit includes laser-cut balsa and plywood parts, a pre-drilled balsa nose/cowl block, pre-shaped wing joiner blocks, vacuum-formed canopy, and full-size printed plans. Overall, it's an easy to build warbird of balsa and foam construction. The fuselage is built over an internal disposable crutch, and the trademark inverted gull wing uses special joiner pieces to produce the characteristic bent look and avoid the "broken wing" appearance of most sport scale Corsairs. The carefully-engineered Corsair model is designed from the ground up to make it possible to build a light and simple version of this complex airframe. Jim Ryan's 1/16 scale Vought F4U Corsair as featured in the January, 2000 Model Aviation magazine.
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