Hey, check out the retarded little brother of the Corsair.

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>only one machine gun in the turret

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>>34560524
>Torpedo Bomber
>Little brother of a fighter
that's not how it works.

Pic is the little brother - not exactly retarded though.

>>34560524
>>34560820

Neither of these planes have any relation whatsoever to the corsair.

>>34560576
but it's .50 cal

>>34561010
>.50 cal on a bi-plane
Wouldn't the recoil send it backwards a bit, or at least slow it's air speed, thus causing it to lose thrust and fall from the sky?

>>34560524
Aichi B7A is the sexier aircraft.

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>>34560839
No shit. The corsair was built from scratch to be a carrier fighter.
It failed to work as a carrier aircraft.
It wasn't until the British Royal Navy persevered with the design that it became suitable as a carrier aircraft, after which the US started to actually use it in its intended role.

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The Barracuda was a better aircraft

>>34561506
>that it became suitable as a carrier aircraft
Didn't they just fly a curved continuous approach?

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>>34560524
>avenger
>little

Are you retarded or something, OP? Or just a faggot?

>>34560524

I'd take tard strength anyday in a fight.

>>34561506
>built from ground up to be a carrier fighter
>didn't work as carrier aircraft
>had to be fixed by the British

Okay Lindy.

>>34562203
>"It's a well know fact that longbows had such high power they kept ricocheting off objects from Agincourt until WW2 where the loose arrows took out an SS tiger batallion!"

>>34562203
>built from ground up to be a carrier fighter
Really shows how shitty USN pilots were, that they had to learn how to land a plane from the Brits.

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>>34562270
oh didn't know that one

>>34561506
>>34561552
>>34562203
If I recall correctly, the Corsair was unsuitable as a carrier fighter in its first iteration because the landing gear suspension was poorly designed and tended to bounce too much for a safe carrier landing. Also the nose is so long that visibility when landing on a carrier was a problem. Those were pretty small issues which were fixed by both the British AND the Americans after the initial model, with minor modifications to the landing gear, canopy, and approach-to-landing technique. However, by that time the US Navy was more interested in the Hellcat, so the Corsair remained mostly assigned to land-based squadrons. The Hellcat and Corsair were both such fine fighters that in my opinion the debate between them is kind of pointless, but I do love the Corsair personally.

>>34564325
If you don't love the Corsair you don't love anything.

>>34561026
wat?

>>34560524
>little