Nightfighter Corsair

This is the F4U-5NL, an all weather nightfighter version of the F4U Corsair line. The -5 version was the first post World War II version of the fighter and the first all weather version as well. Fitted with an AN/APS-6 radar in a pod on her starboard wing, she was used as a night intruder during the Korean War.

This model specifically represents the aircarft of Capt. J. Folmar of VMA-312, who in 1952 during the Korean War engaged and shot down a MiG-15 jet fighter. Not only that, but he became the only fighter ace flying only a piston engined fighter during that war.

More pics:
Technical sketch:
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11 O'clock:
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Radar pod, Autocannons, Rockets, Starboard main gear:
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Close up on kill markings:
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Cans of whoop ass; cannons, rockets, bombs, even the prop...during WWII, a Corsair pilot chopped the tail off a Japanese bomber using his Corsair's prop like a 13 foot circular saw:
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Planform:
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Port wing flaps:
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9 O'clock:
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