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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16699192" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>The Corsairs were amazing airplanes. Every last one of them was dual-supercharged. And then there was the F2G-variant of the F4 Corsair. Instead of the P&W dual-supercharged, 18-cylinder 2800, it had a P&W 4360 Wasp Major. 28 clyinder. 7-cylinders in four rows. They made it to counter the Kamikaze threat. Some of those planes were rocket powered, some were rocket boosted for the final dive. They would just run away from our fighter cover, once they got on their final approach and we had nothing that could counter them.</p><p></p><p>So Republic threw the R4360 engine on the Corsair airframe. It was, in fact, 7mph slower than the standard F4 Corsair. But there was nothing else on Earth that could keep up with it in a climb. And it's acceleration, up to that 7-mph slower max speed, was like nothing else. Add in the airframe had already shown it could be shot all to Hell and still get the pilot back to base. Like the F8 Bearcat, the F9F Panther, the final 4360-powered version of the Sea Fury, it entered the war in only the final few months. They still had not worked out all the bugs with the gigantic engine, so we'll never know how it would have really stacked up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16699192, member: 67454"] The Corsairs were amazing airplanes. Every last one of them was dual-supercharged. And then there was the F2G-variant of the F4 Corsair. Instead of the P&W dual-supercharged, 18-cylinder 2800, it had a P&W 4360 Wasp Major. 28 clyinder. 7-cylinders in four rows. They made it to counter the Kamikaze threat. Some of those planes were rocket powered, some were rocket boosted for the final dive. They would just run away from our fighter cover, once they got on their final approach and we had nothing that could counter them. So Republic threw the R4360 engine on the Corsair airframe. It was, in fact, 7mph slower than the standard F4 Corsair. But there was nothing else on Earth that could keep up with it in a climb. And it's acceleration, up to that 7-mph slower max speed, was like nothing else. Add in the airframe had already shown it could be shot all to Hell and still get the pilot back to base. Like the F8 Bearcat, the F9F Panther, the final 4360-powered version of the Sea Fury, it entered the war in only the final few months. They still had not worked out all the bugs with the gigantic engine, so we'll never know how it would have really stacked up. [/QUOTE]
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