Author Topic: Sterling C-9 Carrier Corsair ? (Read 554 times)

dankar · « **on:** October 03, 2012, 08:49:26 AM »

Original version with metal cowl just wondered if anybody built one. Or better yet used one ? I picked this up at recent contest. Kit has parts removed from sheets and plywood parts redone. My Guardian kit I have had to replace plywood parts as sheets were very poor quality. I picked up a nice Mauler for class 2. Did some minor touch up on paint but bird looks darn nice. I have Guardian under construction and now have Mauler. Plus have F-4 F profile and a good Class 1 bird. The Corsair is a great looking Bird and wonder how they flew.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2012, 09:25:41 AM »

I used to fly the Sterling Corsair in Class I carrier with a K&B .40 rear rotor. The last time I flew it, was perfect for me carrier weather. Very little breeze if any. I was concentrating so hard on low speed that I forgot to count laps. It would not hang like an MO-1 because it was a little nose heavy and no slider. Finally I noticed nobody was watching me. I asked if low speed laps were done just as I ran out of fuel. That K&B was a fuel hog. It is not a good plane to fly in the wind if there is any.

john vlna · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2012, 08:28:45 PM »

Doc,
Intresting that it wasn't good in the wind. I've built the Sterling, but have built a couple of Cosairs over the years. They all flew well. I still have a Profile version and fly it time to time.
John

john vlna · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2012, 08:42:41 PM »

P.S.
This is the one I built, Published in FM about 1963 I think

Author Topic: Sterling C-9 Carrier Corsair ? (Read 554 times)

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