
Chance Vought F4U-1 "birdcage canopy" Corsair. 

This airplane was flown by Capt. James N. Cupp, USMC with VMF-213, Munda, September 1943. He scored 12.5 kills and 2 probables. It was named the "DAPHNE C" for Cupp's wife. VMF-213 relieved VMF-124 at Gaudalcanal on April 1, 1943. Cupp was with VMF-213 for 2 tours on Guadalcanal and one tour on Munda. During his last tour, he was shot down by defensive fire from a Betty bomber he was attacking, being badly burned while bailing out. He spent 18 months in hospital and had 14 operations before recovering enough to be released. 

I refined the 3DZ to provide an appropriate sized prop and prop hub, refined the shape of the nose and tail tips, deepened the cockpit slightly and added camo color to the gear doors instead of black.

I would like to give credit for the basis 3DZ but I have no idea of everyone whose hands it passed through. Two I am aware of are Woolfman, and Schatten who made some updates to the old PAW wireframe model.

I have included Keith 'Lobo 78th' Rogers' terrific Corsair cockpit which he developed with help from Wolf257's 3dz that gives the 'wings forward' and corsair shaped wings from the interior views, as well as the repainted gauge face pcx's. Plus Miggie-green cockpit interiors from his P-47 D pcx's and PapaRomeo-Navy Mk8 gunsight reticle. I recolored the wing markings to match this skin.

This is a fully non-mirrored model so markings appear correctly on both sides of the fuselage. 

For use with Charles Gunst's ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Panel. It uses the P51D slot.
To install, just unzip the *.TPC and *.3DZ files into your EAW directory.

There is an extra .PCX for an unmarked aircraft included if you'd like to try your hand at adding your own markings, with my full blessings. 

Have fun,

Captain Kurt

