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 Post subject: FG-1E and FG-3 Corsairs
PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:23 am 
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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!! :D


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I think that links has some problems ID'ing F4U-4s. :lol: Not that that means the specs are incorrect.

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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.

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