60774 Vought F4U-1 Bird Cage Corsair - Tamiya  [60774]

With regards to the Vought F4U-1 Bird Cage Corsair

In 1938, the U.S. Navy issued a demand a new high-speed and high-altitude capable single-seat provider based fighter airplane to boost the Grumman F2F/F3F biplane. The Vought aircraft business rose toward challenge utilizing their F4U Corsair, which mounted a huge 2,000hp engine and finished up being fitted because of the biggest propeller yet applied to a fighter. It had been immediately recognizable the inverted gull wings, that have been built to enable brief and sturdy landing gears, while nevertheless supplying sufficient clearance the propeller. The F4U completed up being the very first U.S. fighter to meet or exceed 400mph (644km/h) in degree trip and wound up being the utmost effective usa planes introduced during WWII. Initial manufacturing model F4U-1 finished up being nicknamed 'Bird Cage' due to its frame-like cockpit canopy, and finished up being implemented to U.S. Navy and aquatic Corps squadrons in the Pacific as a land and provider based fighter.

Concerning the Model

• 1/72 scale installation model kit of Vought F4U-1 Bird Cage Corsair.
• Kit represents 1st manufacturing model F4U-1, including intricate detailing the frame-like cockpit canopy that received this airplane the nickname, Bird Cage.
• New elements depict canopy, propeller, fast end wheel and wing trailing flap without access step.
• Quality Cartograf decals for 4 different markings of U.S. Navy and Aquatic Corps planes, including aircraft through well-known VMF-214 Ebony Sheep and VF-17 Jolly Rogers squadrons.