FG-1E and FG-3 Corsairs
Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:23 am
Ok, I was looking through the book Corsair Aces by Walter A. Musciano and in the back it lists Corsair variants. It mentions that the FG-1E was radar equipped and the FG-3 had a turbosupercharged engine. I had never heard of these before. Can anyone tell me more about these two versions? Thanks!! 
Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:18 pm
Swiss Mustangs wrote:http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/vougf4u.html
Martin
I think that links has some problems ID'ing F4U-4s.
Not that that means the specs are incorrect.
Tim
Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:49 pm
Off the top of my head these may have been test a/c or proposed a/c if Goodyear would have built them.
Had they been built, the F4U-2 (radar) = FG-1E, Vought XF4U-3 (turbosupercharger) = FG-3, Vought F4U-4 = FG-4.
Goodyear never put either the FG-1E or FG-3 in production. Not sure if they had tooled up for FG-4 production or not. Maybe a few on production lines, but none accepted.
Regards,
Mike
Had they been built, the F4U-2 (radar) = FG-1E, Vought XF4U-3 (turbosupercharger) = FG-3, Vought F4U-4 = FG-4.
Goodyear never put either the FG-1E or FG-3 in production. Not sure if they had tooled up for FG-4 production or not. Maybe a few on production lines, but none accepted.
Regards,
Mike