Goodyear F2G Corsair

The Goodyear F2G Super Corsair was a development by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of the FG-1-F4U-1 Corsair design as a special low-altitude version of a fighter equipped with a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 twenty-eight cylinder four row radial air-cooled engine. Although often cited that the origin of the aircraft was as an interceptor of low-flying Japanese suicide airplanes its actual beginnings came about in 1939 when the Pratt and Whitney company first proposed its enormous new engine.

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Goodyear F2G Corsair before V-J Day and ultimately, of course, became a workhorse engine in the Convair B-36, Boeing B-50 and other multiengine aircraft.2

Made by Goodyear Aerospace.

It is the successor of the Vought F4U Corsair .

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Height Main
490.22
Designer
Rex Buren Beisel
Predecessor
Vought F4U Corsair
Length Alt
10.3 m
Max Takeoff Weight Main
15422.0
Jet Or Prop
prop
Lists
* List of fighter aircraft* List of military aircraft of the United States
Range Main
1
955 mi
Loaded Weight Main
13346.0
Height Alt
4.9 m
Type Of Prop
28
Introduced
1945
Loading Main
43
Power/mass Main
792.0
Developed From
Vought F4U Corsair
Range More
with external tanks
Bombs
1600.0
Rockets
8
Max Speed Main
431 mph
Max Takeoff Weight Alt
6995.0
Ceiling Main
38800.0
Number Built
10
Crew
1
Max Speed More
at 16
400 ft
Retired
1945
Loaded Weight Alt
6054.0
Area Main
314.0
Primary user
United States Navy
Span Alt
12.5 m
Plane Or Copter?
plane
Power Alt
2200.0
Engine(prop)
Pratt & Whitney R-4360-4 Wasp Major
Manufacturer
Goodyear Aerospace
First Flight
15
Climb Rate Main
7000.0
Power Main
3
000 hp
Number Of Props
1
Power/mass Alt
370
Guns
4
Climb Rate Alt
35.6 m-s
Length Main
1028.7
Span Main
41.0
Area Alt
29 m²
Range Alt
1699
Similar Aircraft
* F8F Bearcat* Hawker Sea Fury
Max Speed Alt
374
Related
* F4U Corsair
Empty Weight Main
10249.0
Ceiling Alt
11
800 m
Category
Goodyear aircraft
Inverted gull-wing aircraft
Racing aircraft
United States fighter aircraft 1940-1949
Empty Weight Alt
4649.0
Loading Alt
208

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