1/72 F4U-1D Corsair (Hasegawa 1:72 Aircraft Series A10)

The F-4U-1D Corsair was a US Navy/Marine Corps fighter plane used in World War II. The Corsair was equipped with an air-cooled engine (a method of cooling the engine using air), which was said to be the state-of-the-art at the time. This engine had a powerful output, and to make full use of this power, the propeller diameter was made large at 3.82m. As a result, if it was equipped with normal wings, the propeller would hit the ground, so the distinctive inverted gull wing (shaped like an inverted seagull's wing) was created. Thanks to this inverted gull wing, it was possible to increase the distance from the ground without making the front landing gear longer.

《Data》
Crew: 1 pilot, 1 scout, total of 2
Aircraft width (wing span): 12.50m
Aircraft length (to tip of propeller spinner): 10.16m
Total height (from ground to tip of vertical tail): 4.60m
Engine: Pratt & Whitney P&W R-2800-8(W) air-cooled radial engine
Engine power: 2,000 horsepower
Maximum speed: 684km/h
Armment mounted on aircraft: 6 fixed 12.7mm machine guns