Saxman

Should throw together an F4F for when Combat Pilot comes out.

Honestly, cannon was overkill against Japanese aircraft considering a solid 1-second burst was usually enough to set them on fire. It became more important with the jet era because you didn't have the time on target.

The P-51A and B both reached 388mph at sea level without racks at 75in MAP and 3000RPM. F4U-1 BuNo 02234 (this would be a Birdcage model, and a fairly early one, within the first 324 aircraft) was clocked in fighter condition at 311mph at sea level, however this is at normal rated power, not WEP. An even earlier F4U-1, BuNo 02155, clocked about 348mph at sea level with emergency power. It's not recorded what the configuration (pylons, etc.) were. F4U-1 BuNo 17930 reached 365mph on the deck. This was a late-production F4U-1A with broad-chord prop and water injection. It was tested in a Fighter Overload configuration at 12,162lbs loaded weight, with no fuel in the unprotected wing tanks.

VMF-124 shouldn't have those additional stripes on either side of the bar. Take another look at the photo of the original #88. I'm not even sure that's overspray. Rather I think what you're seeing in some of them is a reflection of the sun on the rudder frames above and below the stripe.

I've recently configured Quad Views on my Ultrawide and have been having some issues. I've currently got it set up using Pimax Play, with Quadviews Foveated installed. Pimax Fixed Foveated is also turned on. I am not using PimaxXR or OpenXR Toolkit. Quadviews does work under this configuration, however I'm getting thick, flickering bars across the focus area. Sometimes they're vertical, sometimes horizontal, sometimes they occupy a circle, sometimes it's a box. This ONLY happens with Quadviews turned on. If I remove Foveated, Quadviews turns off and the focus area is instead filled by a very faint box. I can still see and fly, but the flickering very quickly starts to get uncomfortable, and can also cause objects like other aircraft that are on screen to be slightly distorted and are more difficult to make out clearly. Has anyone else experienced this behavior and know what could be causing it?

I don't think 150 ever made it to the Pacific. They had 100/130. And removing pylons would not push the F4U-1 up to P-51 speeds. The fastest -1 Corsairs were the late F4U-1As with water injection and broad-chord props, which could get up to 420mph give or take 2-3mph. That's still short of the P-51. The F4U-4s that arrived in 1945 were faster than the Mustang, but they had an even more powerful R-2800-18(W) engine (increased base horsepower to 2100, and 2400 with ADI) and a four-blade paddle prop. They achieved 446mph at altitude even WITH the pylons in place.

Here is the tail hook of an F4U. Note that it's attached to the tail wheel strut assembly. When the landing gear are in the "Up" or "Brake" position, the tail wheel is raised and the tail wheel doors are closed. Despite that little notch exposing the hook, the doors (and the tail wheel itself) prevent the tail hook from being lowered.

Pilots would fly whatever plane was available and they wouldn't be so neatly organized. For one, most land-based squadrons didn't even have their own aircraft; every squadron on the base would draw from the same pool. Squadrons like VF-17 were quite unique in that regard. Boyington was recorded flying at least three different Corsairs, MoDex 740, 883, and 915 (which he was flying when shot down). And not all Marine Corsairs had three digit numbers. The Vargas Cowgirl Corsair attached to VMF-422 had a MoDex of 8. For many of the three digit machines, the MoDex was simply the last three digits of the BuNo (17740, 17883, and 17915) but even this wasn't always consistent.

There's more changes needed to make it a 1A than just removing the wing pylons. The 1A had additional fuel tanks in the wings (these are present in the damage model but are commented out. Future plans?). The canopy had additional frames on each side. Different propeller. The 1A originally had the same narrow-chord prop as the -1, not the later paddle prop on the 1D (IIRC, it was the same propeller used by the F6F-3). This was first tested in VF-17's Corsairs and retrofit later whenever the props were available, but many 1As never received it. The 1A initially didn't have water injection. This was first introduced in BuNos 55950 (F4U-1A) and 13992 (FG-1A), which is later in the production before the change to the 1D (Corsair BuNos can get weird. 55784 to 56483 are F4U-1As, but earlier BuNos 50360 to 50659 are F4U-1Ds). The injection system was retrofit whenever the parts were available, but many earlier 1As never received it. The 1A had a lower dry weight, though its loaded weight could be equivalent or even higher depending on how much fuel was in the wing tanks (which weren't popular and were often left empty). So you'd also have to add fuel tanks, change the canopy model, change the empty and loaded weights, and depending on what version of the 1A you wanted change the prop, remove the water injection, or both. The 1A is my favorite Corsair since it's the pure dogfighter of the -1 series, but it will take more work than just removing the pylons.

Somehow without even clicking I knew what it was going to be.

So 100 yards should at least be an option. And good GOD that AI video thumbnail is cursed...

It was STILL an issue at release, it just wasn't as bad.

I wouldn't call them addressed. There's still issues like overboosting when according to the POH it shouldn't be.

It's not as sensitive to temperature, but overboost when it shouldn't is still an issue (the only time the POH warns against possible overboost is if you shift supercharger speeds without backing off the throttle).

Any chance you'd be putting the files up for download?