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Thanks so much for this! I usually avoid the old Caucasus map like cancer nowadays if I don't fly a fitting aircraft for it. Also +1 one for a dedicated Missions & Campaigns sub-forum

These units were done by M3L, the 3rd party developer of the F4U to support their module. Not ED

The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale is another good read about the topic. It follows a group of pilots from their training in the US, the August 1944 air strikes against Tirpitz through the final battles in the Pacific.

I guess only once ED has implemented the Mk-77 firebomb and the required effects for the F/A-18. I does not look like Napalm can be done right in DCS now. It was once on the list for the Harrier too, but held back for this reasons.

A European FAA livery would be great, without the red parts of the roundels removed. Currently we only have Pacific Fleet liveries.

MAG-31 ordnance officers built a custom bomb rack to handle a 2000lbs bomb for Lindbergh, but I've never seen any photos of it.

Thank you! With your Corsair one of my longstanding dreams became true.

Have you seen this thread, about increasing the max FOV for the F4U. It might help with your 3 screens. The F4U cockpit is very spacey for a warbird. Especially when compared to some light weight fighter a the Bf-109. One of the common complains back in the day was that Vought built it around their 2 m tall chief test pilot Boone T. Guyton, thus that the common smaller pilots had problems adjusting to it.

Interestingly recommended mixture settings change between the 1944 and 1945 revisions of the pilots manual. Our F4U and tutorials seem to be based on the latter. In 1945 the manual is very confident that auto lean setting provides maximum efficiency and does not recommend manual leaning at all, except in case of erractic carburetor metering. The mixture lever originally had a fourth setting full-rich or emergeny rich that was made inoperative late in the F4Us service life. In 1944 Auto rich is still recommended for all flight operations above 65 % power, in 1945 only for take off and landing.

The Essex class carrier is no separate purchase or download. It was made to M3L to support the F4U and realeased with the last patch.

It's in the AN 01-45HA-1 Pilot's handbook, here from 15 March 1945:

The F4U is no Zero, but turn rate and maneuverability a quite good for plane of that size. Navy wartime test did show that the F4U could easily out turn a FW-190A or P-51B. F4U_vs_Fw190-P-51B.pdf

Mostly the same airicraft as our -1D, but with 4 M2 20 mm cannons installed in the wings instead of the six 0.5 Brownings. Hopefully a quite simple modification of our Corsair.

The British MKIV has cut, flat wing tips to fit into the lower hangars decks of RN armoured carriers. In theory the roll rate should be slightly higher.

Yes, the F4U has a carburetor

Downloading now

"Subject to additional days and/or hours", thats brilliant

DCS: F4U-1 Corsair is already in the Steam database since October 2015: https://steamdb.info/app/411940/ Maybe the other new entry is ED's Pacific Assets pack or Hellcat? I hope both will follow soon after the F4U release.

Not to mention ground attack. We get the fully developed fighter bomber F4U-1D, also used by the RN FAA, not some early model just fighting Zeros over the Salomons

There are a few excellent period training videos on YouTube that describe how to fly and deck land the Corsair properly. FAA Carrier landing procedures:

Fight Fw-190s above Norway. At least it looks like the Hellcat and full Pacific assets pack will not be much behind the F4U release.

I had this one as a toy in the 80ties Before discovering airplanes, harvesters were the coolest thing I could imagine back then.

From Facebook: 1842 Naval Air Squadron

Here is the link to the original crowdfunding campaign from 2012. It was shortly after DCS World as an open, modular system was announced/released. I was super hyped for the future of DCS and a full fidelity MiG-21. Orignally, things like DCS A-10C, FC2, Black Shark were separate installs with some multiplayer compatibility. At the end it took 2 more years of development until the MiG was released, but back then everything looked imminent. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dcs-mig-21bis-fishbed

Interesting how the times are changing. 20 years ago WW2 sims were dominating the market, while Lock On (and modded 90ties sims) were almost the only offerings for modern jets. Guess, the interest in WW2 aviation withers more and more away, with each year that passes, seperating us from this war.