durafly f4u carsair 1100mm

Originally posted by Hoverin LOL again. No offence but your spin on podium finishes here doesn't concern me. Nor does a typical RCG or RCU tennis match... however your lack of seeing the forest for the trees does... Try looking a little deeper.... If the Corsair was purely a runway plane it would just have long landing gear to "stop the prop hitting the floor" as you put it... Long landing gear stops the prop hitting the floor too, without very hard to make, expensive and time consuming inverted gull wings to make, do some more Googling as you quickly as you did before to join this conversation and actually read past the first couple of sentences and just maybe you will see the wing is purely for "shorter landing gear" for what this plane was designed for "carrier landings" The gull wing shortens the landing gear nothing more.... Goodnight.....

Sounds like you can't see the trees for the forest so I'm not going to get all twisted trying to change your mind.

LOL again. No offence but your spin on podium finishes here doesn't concern me. Nor does a typical RCG or RCU tennis match... however your lack of seeing the forest for the trees does... Try looking a little deeper....

If the Corsair was purely a runway plane it would just have long landing gear to "stop the prop hitting the floor" as you put it...
Long landing gear stops the prop hitting the floor too, without very hard to make, expensive and time consuming inverted gull wings to make, do some more Googling as you quickly as you did before to join this conversation and actually read past the first couple of sentences and just maybe you will see the wing is purely for "shorter landing gear" for what this plane was designed for "carrier landings"

The gull wing shortens the landing gear nothing more....

Goodnight.....

Edited by Hoverin - 28/Sep/2012 at 6:01pm

Originally posted by TignMeg Although it does say that the idea was to allow for the large prop whilst avoiding long landing gear.

It does say that doesn't it... Avoiding long landing gear.
The Corsair had a large engine, needed a large prop, didn't need a gull wing, unless it's flying from a carrier and needed shorter gear....
You do realise you just contradicted yourself.

Sorry dry joint no cigar for you, Henrik is right. If you had to make room for a big prop why not just extend the landing gear?
Because this is considered dangerous on a carrier.... hence the inverted gull wing, to keep LG shorter....

Originally posted by Crashtruk Not paying out on anyone here, RC aircraft are like real aircraft, they do not take abuse well. If you tried to take a real F4U off a rough field you would probably break the gear as well. If you had a bad landing (we all have) in real F4U then I would say the damage would be much worse. Treat the models as you would a full size and you will have few problems.

The f4u is made for landing and takeoff from carriers thats why the wings are bend like they are to make the landing gear shorter so it shouldt be able to withstand some abuse from a grass field.
Just my 2 cents.