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Title: When did F4U-1A entered service?
Post by: 1K3 on December 05, 2006, 01:30:51 AM

When did F4U-1A entered service?

Title: When did F4U-1A entered service?
Post by: Raptor on December 05, 2006, 01:34:54 AM

First delivery of the F4U-1A with R-2800-8W engine was in November of 1943. First delivery of the F4U-1A with R-2800-8 engine (no water injection) was in August of 1943.

Title: When did F4U-1A entered service?
Post by: Saxman on December 05, 2006, 10:49:17 AM

It's really a lot trickier to determine than that, as the F4U-1A wasn't DESIGNATED as such until a little later int he war (so what is now regarded as a 1A, at the time would have still just been called a -1).

It wasn't like the 1C, which was immediately differentiated from the -1 by the addition of cannon, or the 1D by its increased ordinance payload. The 1A was more of a gradual evolution out of the -1. Somewhere along the line as the kinks were worked out and various upgrades made they decided to add the "A," back- dated to a certain block.

That being said, our 1A would have first appeared around November 1943 at the earliest, as Raptor said, because that's when Corsairs began using the water-injected version of the R-2800.