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Old August 14th 03, 09:09 AM
Garrison L. Hilliard
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(Kevin Brooks) wrote:
In point of fact the Corsair switched to cannon armament in
the F4U-4B and F4U-4C.


"Production included 2050 F4U-4s with six .50 guns, 297 F4U-4Bs or
F4U-4Cs with four 20mm cannon"

Source:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevo...other/f4u.html

Come on, 15% of the aircraft manufactured were all that got the 20mm's
out of the -4 series.


The AU-1 produced specifically for the marines during the Korean war
also had an all cannon armament


An even poorer example; only about 100 were produced during the war.
How many hundreds of older Corsairs were still flying with the .50 cal
during Korea? A photo from Vought's archive shows one with its six
MG's (see http://www.voughtaircraft.com/photos/data/planes8.htm).



Might I suggest http://www.aerofiles.com/_vot.html