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To allow the tail gunner access - past the horizontal tail spar - the horizontal tail spar needs to be mounted on the top or bottom of the fuselage. Glider pilots learned - before WW2 - that low-mounted tails were more suseptical to damage when landing on rough fields.As for the inverted gull-wing ..... they probably wanted to improve the pilot’s lateral vision over the Beaufighter or deHavilland Mosquito.As for the Vought F4U Corsair’s inverted gull-wing .... it was a horrid series of compromises. First, they wanted undercarriage short enough to retract aft and fit between the wing spars. Then they added a huge engine and propeller, etc.As for streamlining ..... Grumman did quite well without complicated dihedral or wing root fillets.
To allow the tail gunner access - past the horizontal tail spar - the horizontal tail spar needs to be mounted on the top or bottom of the fuselage. Glider pilots learned - before WW2 - that low-mounted tails were more suseptical to damage when landing on rough fields.
As for the inverted gull-wing ..... they probably wanted to improve the pilot’s lateral vision over the Beaufighter or deHavilland Mosquito.
As for the Vought F4U Corsair’s inverted gull-wing .... it was a horrid series of compromises. First, they wanted undercarriage short enough to retract aft and fit between the wing spars. Then they added a huge engine and propeller, etc.
As for streamlining ..... Grumman did quite well without complicated dihedral or wing root fillets.
