The giant scale F4U-1 Corsair plan set is 1/5.3 scale and consists of four large sheets that clearly illustrate all structure as well as showing installation of flaps and retracts.
Dummy Engines (NZP - Vac-formed Plastic). B & B Specialties Fuel Tanks, Mufflers and Spring Starters. It is also armed with eight 12.7 cm high-velocity aircraft rockets and/or 1,800 kg of bombs. The aircraft could be armed with various weapons such as six 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine guns with 400 rounds per gun or four 20 mm AN/M3 cannon with 231 rounds per gun. It can fly up to 41,500 feet and can climb at a rate of 4,360 feet per minute. The normal range is 873 nautical miles and the combat range is 285 nautical miles. The aircraft has a maximum speed of 388 knots and a stall speed of 77 knots. It produces a maximum takeoff thrust of 2,380 hp and drives three or four-bladed propellers. It is an American twin-row eighteen-cylinder radial engine with water injection, two poppet valves per cylinder, a variable-speed supercharger with fluid coupling, a Stromberg injection carburetor fuel system, and an air cooling system. The F4U-4 is powered by a single Pratt and Whitney R-2800-18W radial engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 4,238 kg, a maximum takeoff weight of 6,592 kg, a maximum payload of 2,000 kg, and a fuel tank capacity of 54 US gal. The wingspan is 12.50 meters and the wing area is 29.17 square meters. 
It has a tail height of 4.5 meters and a wheelbase of 6.28 meters. The F4U-4 can carry a single crew member it has an external length of 10.26 meters, an external height of 3.2 meters, and a fuselage diameter of 1.3 meters.
In early 1945, aircraft deliveries to the United States Navy started. The F4U-4 was the final version that served during World War II. The F4U-1 was the first production variant designed with a distinguishing birdcage canopy and fitted with a low seating position. On May 29, 1940, the first prototype XF4U-1 piloted by Lyman Bullard Jr. The F4U Corsair was initially designed and produced by Chance Vought before further production contracts were handed to Goodyear Aerospace Corporation.
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