Why infrastructure alone would not solve Corsair production limits

Could greater American infrastructure investment have prevented production-capacity limits on the F4U Corsair?

Only if it also created real industrial capacity through earlier aircraft production and secured the imported bauxite needed for aluminum.

The panel distinguishes physical infrastructure from an aircraft industry's productive capacity. Avoiding the Corsair bottleneck would require earlier aircraft orders that justified building machine tools, organizing suppliers, and training the workforce before wartime demand surged. Aluminum also depended on bauxite that was largely imported from within the wider American sphere rather than mined domestically in sufficient volume. Investment could therefore help, but only as part of a broader prewar expansion of production and raw-material supply.