1986 Corsair F4U-1

The Corsair F4U-1 was my second attempt at building a model airplane. The first had been a rubber-band powered Cessna 150 that came to a bad end when my cat thought it was "interesting." This is a Guillows kit that was fairly easy to build, even for the amateur I was at the time. Rather than using the fabric skin that came with the kit, I decided to use very thin balsa, making it heavier but stronger. I built it as a "control line" flyer and put a big motor in it. But after the hundreds of hour I put into building it, I could never bring my self to fly it.