If anyone is interested, I thought I would document my Corsair build. If anyone else has built one or is building one feel free to jump in! Just a little bit of warning, I take about twice as long as the average person to build my planes so this will be a SLOW to update thread! Also contributing to the slowness is this is the most complicated model I've ever "assembled"... So it will be even slower than normal. There's a lot of building if you ask me for this plane being an ARF.
The plane came delivered by UPS, which I can't remember the last time I had a plane delivered by UPS. Thankfully they didn't smash or poke holes in anything. It comes in three boxes, the cowl in one box, fuselage and wing tips in another box and the wing center section comes in its own box.. The most impressive part out of the box was the wing center section, it's all fiberglass and is really a work of art. The inner two flaps on each side of the wing are fiberglass with the third section of flap and the ailerons being traditional built up construction.
There are a LOT of parts... A LOT! I have ordered and received everything for this plane with the exception of the receiver batteries and the actual engine itself. I will probably wait on the engine until I actually need it.. I plan on using the Evolution 77cc radial and have already bought all the accessories for this installation. This airplane has a pretty exact scale outline and has a short nose. The radial while sounding awesome will help with nose weight, I shouldn't need much if any.
I have a lot of pics and better pics that I will post as I go. I plan on using the sliding canopy, scale pilot, scale lighting, retracts, retract doors and the previously mentioned radial. The only offered option I'm not planning on doing is the bomb/tank drops.
Control will be with my JR XG 11 using an Infinity XBus receiver.