Warbird Information Exchange

Hello all,

I am looking for info about the roll rate of F4U. I have quite many books and DVD's about about F4U, but none have provided exact information about this. The only info that I have found was in book: Whistling death, The test pilots story of the F4U Corsair

On page 85 Quyton writes as follows:

Throwing the stick hard against its full stop would roll the airplane more than 180 degrees in a second. And the stick force required to do it was light- easy with one hand even at high speed. Combat pilots would latere revel in the Corsair's phenomenal reate of roll.

But surely the rate of roll at different speeds has been documented a bit more exactly? Everything else can be found, speed at different altitudes, rate of climb etc.

We did this a few months ago over on the Key Publishing forum....forget the exacts, but yes the Corsair's roll rate was one of the best of WWII and matched, as I recall, only in late war by the power boosted ailerons of the late model P-38 series....have to go right now but will consult my books later for more details...

Mark

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Mark Morris

It was also discussed here a while back on a thread about roll rates of WWII fighters:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... highlight=

Cheers

Paul

Ah, ok, so it was on THIS forum, my bad....and it was that thread that led me to request 'America's Hundred Thousand' at Rob Mears suggestion, which now sits under my left elbow as I write this...an excellent suggestion and an excellent resource book...

Mark

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Mark Morris

Let's continue this in the thread mentioned by Bradburger

Chris