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Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: poopster on May 16, 2002, 09:27:02 PM

Luftwobble in good standing for many a year.

Took the F4U up for some hops over here, and haven't got out of it since :D

Great model here, really enjoy it.

Us Luftwobbles sometimes have strange things above our flight desks ;)

(http://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v1/9/3/93/35090393jiDJaE_ph.jpg)

Mums the word :)

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: ra on May 16, 2002, 10:41:36 PM

Which F4U, we have 3?

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: Dago on May 16, 2002, 10:51:55 PM

hmm, looks like an Antec case.

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: fdiron on May 17, 2002, 02:42:04 AM

I love the F4U-1, but it accelerates and climbs very slowly.  P51B out accelerates and out climbs the F4U-1 bigtime.

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: AcId on May 17, 2002, 08:20:31 AM

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Originally posted by fdiron
I love the F4U-1, but it accelerates and climbs very slowly.  P51B out accelerates and out climbs the F4U-1 bigtime.

I wish I could fly the ol'B but I have a very nasty habit of ripping it to shreds when I move the stick:( Until I can get that under control I'll stick with the hog-1:cool:

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: narsus on May 17, 2002, 11:18:27 AM

Poop

I fly the 1d often, just don't get slow in in ok.

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: beet1e on May 17, 2002, 01:07:17 PM

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Which F4U, we have 3?

I thought we had 4. Here's what I think of each.

• F4U-1. Don't really like it. Don't like the cockpit. Outside vis is erring towards P38.
• F4U-1C Good. Needs 8 perk points to fly, but a good plane with great guns; Useful for strafing down the town and killing ackstars.
• F4U-1D. My favourite of the lot. Good ammo load, no perk points needed. In fact the only fighters I seem to fly are this and the P51D. But I use the F4U-1D mainly for jabo, and destruction of towns.
• F4U-4. 50 perk points LOL! It used to be 60. Needs to get to great altitude before it justfies those 50pp. If you use its speed, it will compress. Not worth the PP.

Poopster. Don't go back to that piece of toejam you've been flying. Also, try out the P47s - MUCH better than where we came from, and closer to how Gabreski described it in his book.

The F4Us are great B&Z/e-fighters, but keep your eye on the accelerometer when zooming up. Try not to exceed 1.2G, or you wont be able to zoom up as far. I like the rolling ability of the F4U. As for turns, who needs 'em!  This is a B&Z plane. :D

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: udet on May 17, 2002, 01:41:21 PM

I hate the F4U

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: hblair on May 17, 2002, 02:11:32 PM

I like the corsair about 150 yards in front of me, couple of squirms, then I lob tater in his cockpit, 2-3 seconds later...BOOM! Gotta love it. :)

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: poopster on May 17, 2002, 07:35:08 PM

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looks like an Antec case.

Dago I hope they never discontinue this case. When I built a box for my Daughter I used the same case. It ROCKS :D

Got three case intake fans in front, three output in back ( counting the power supply ), the 3 little hard drive fans above the floppy..

Case temp of 75 degrees :)  CPU temps under load run about 101 :D   ( 1.2 T-Bird ) Slow by todays standards but it's almost a year old..

Take off the side panel and it's....just...all there :)

Haven't seen a better set up in any cases I've looked at.

For 90 bucks with a 300 watt PS ??? Gotta be kidding, best out there IMO

:)

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: Revvin on May 18, 2002, 04:39:04 AM

Got to admit I have a little soft spot for the ugly bent winded blue plane particularly the 1D.

Title: LOVE the Corsair here
Post by: Creamo on May 18, 2002, 05:10:09 AM

Mmmm..... taters.