this was the premier navy fighter, as everyone knows, the corsair. f-4u is what the official designation was, but this particular model was an fg1-d. meaning fire and -- fighter, and g means it was made by goodyear. it was into aircraft making just like general motors and studebaker. this one has folding wings, also, just like all the other navy airplanes. engine, navy fighter, an which is very big, almost 3000 horsepower engine. most people recognize this airplane because of its bent wings. that is its own look. nothing else of a fighter type it really has that that you would recognize. the reason you do that is so the landing gear does not have to be so long. it did not have anything to do with aerodynamics or anything like that. so, they could keep the landing gear shorter. it would fold up in the wheel wells. and the reason they needed to do that is because the propeller right here, it has got such a long propeller, it comes close to the ground or you can see it was handing down. it would only be that far off. -- it was hanging down. the prop wou

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