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The Historical F4U Corsair is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by the Historical Aircraft Corporation of Nucla, Colorado. The aircraft is a 60% scale replica of the original Chance-Vought F4U Corsair and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 176. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The aircraft features a cantilever low gull wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.〔 The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing covered in a shell of polyurethane foam and fiberglass. Its span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the Ford Motor Company V-6 automotive conversion powerplant.〔 The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is .〔 The aircraft has fairly lengthy runway requirements with a standard day sea level take-off distance of and a landing distance of .〔 The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, instruments and avionics. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Historical F4U Corsair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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