My dad flew the Corsair in the South Pacific during WW II. He loved flying them. After the war airlines came to him and asked to be a pilot for them..my dad said, you want me to fly straight. I am sure he is heaven fly one now
@@greggarner4477 Thank you, so kind I would love to know more of his stories...he was silent about war, as most are. He did tell stories of flying..he love it. Getting qualified to fly the plane was a great story
That engine is like listening to the Windows xp start up sound, it maybe old but it has been there when you needed it and it's like a flood of memories
When American engineers got tired of our pilots getting their butts kicked by Japanese Zeros they didn't just get even, they went for BOSS. What a welcome sight this must have been for our fighter pilots. One magnificent bird of prey. The rumble of that monster Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp engine still inspires awe. Even today it still commands a certain level of respect. Teddy said America should always carry a "Big Stick" and that's just what Vought gave us, a Redwood.
But it took the Brits to figure out how to operate it safely on a carrier, before that, it was relegated to ground bases only with the Marines. Part of the problem lies with how long the nose is in front of the cockpit, it blocks visibility while both on the ground and on approach, making it quite tricky to handle on a carrier, even when you do know how to make a curved approach on landing. Once in the air, it's an excellent piece of equipment for the job. I suspect the reason the Brits were easily able to figure out how to deal with it was that their Seafire, a somewhat hastily made naval conversion of the Spitfire, had many of the same problems, having been designed originally for land based runways instead of (comparatively) tiny carrier decks.
That's Why Grumman Built the F6F HELLCAT : )) Same R2800 Engine as the Corsair but the F6F Shot down more Japanese Kamikaze Zeros than ANY other American Fighter .
Imagine being maybe 19 years old, sitting in this after a fast crash-course in flying, rolling out to go not only shoot at the enemy, but knowing they'll shoot back. There will never be another generation like them. Ever.
> "after a fast crash-course in flying" that was never the case for Corsair Pilots... Sorry to break your fantasies, real aerial war world was tough enough not to make up fake wet dreams.
@@shevetlevi2821 Keep your useless comment for yourself, don't you understand? Nobody cares for this kind of subject, because nobody cares if I chill of not, if I am calm or not. My point is to make an history point : I reacted because I want to share historical information, and the original statement of _FredZeppelin_ claimed what I know to be false. At this stage of Pacific War, training time of US pilots war largely superior to what a new japanese pilot recruit could indeed have, and certainly not a crash course. I intended to react to ignorant comment on Aviation History, and if you can't deal with it, that's not my problem, but, instead of posting obnoxious comment, try to make a point, post a comment of a useful, or benevolent, or necessary nature, what you didn't post yet, repeating your pointless chilling order.
Awesome! My pop was a crew chief on -4's in the Marines.He said the chiefs usually started and warmed them up for the pilots.His pilot even took him up one time,he said it was a very tight fit but he loved the ride.Miss you dad!
I know all the arguments for ww2 fighters like the Mustang, Spitfire, (BF109 and Zero) as iconic WW2 aircraft... but the F4U has always been my favorite.
Just the coolest sounding piston engines of all time. If your a drag racer and love the sound at the strip....you need to here these monster engines. Open headers at it finest 🙂
When I was a boy, I had WW2 aircraft id books. I grew up loving all those old war birds. I especially love fighter aircraft. It never gets old watching and listening to them.
Finally, after waiting since I was a kid, I finally got to see a F4U Corsair not only fly but take pictures up close. I can now die a happy man! Took my kids to the Warhawk Air Museum Air Show in Nampa, ID last weekend where we saw three P-40 Warhawk's, three different P-51 Mustangs (including the Boise Bee), a P-38 Lightning, a B-25 Mitchell, some T-6's and torpedo bombers and of course the F4U Corsair. So glad I took my kids there to hear the 1940's music and watch these warbirds fly right over us.
My dad's first duty, near the end of the war, was on the Hornet CV 12 was to jockey these around on the deck. He was scared to death of that prop and applied for a transfer and ended in the ship's bakery! The Hornet was being sent to what they thought would be a final attack on Japan at this time. On the way there they dropped the bombs and the war was over. The ship returned to Pearl and they removed all military personnel, planes and ordinance. From then on he served during the "Magic Carpet" tour by transporting mostly Marines home.
I have pieces of an F4 Corair that I brought back from Sicily with me when I retired from the Navy. I believe it might have been an F4-5N but not sure. The tail was missing, so was the engine and it was heavily corroded from having been in the Med for over 50 years.
MY GRACIOUS !!!!!! Look at what we came up with to overcome and compensate for Japan’s aluminum Mitsubishi fighter planes. 50 Cal. guns ... that’s plural ... in each wing. A titanium bathtub wrapped around the pilot ... POWER beyond anything ever experienced in all other single engine fighters ... guaranteed maximum sphincter effect , described by every pilot. For its day ... very impressive. Semper Fi
That's simply a matter of opinion. The inverted gull wing of the Corsair is a striking feature but personally nothing compares to the Spitfire in my books. The F4U was more of a Pacific war warbird than a WW2 one in reality. Two distinct wars.
The naval aerial battle Queen in the Pacific during the high tide of war. That was Vought F4U Corsair, the great rival of the Grumman F6F Hellcat, in terms of aerial confirmed kill marks.
@@MikeHalsall Valve over lap is basically when both valves (exhaust and intake) are open in the same window of crankshaft rotation. Works in many great ways at higher engine speeds, but at idle speed it creates the musical chop. Missing and roughness some would say, but it is the true sine of big HP. Sooo good!
For me, there is no other man made object that gives me such a deeply profound, nee religious experience. As a F4U Corsair starting up. Then as it is taxiing out. It unfolds its wings.
I remember as a 8 9 yr old,cars everywhere in my neighborhood,,carried the same blues olive drabs, purples, and, shiny grey paint used in miliions of gallons by the services in ww2 and the korean war
My Uncle served as a MARINE in the Korean war, 1st Marine Corps 3rd battalion told me that Marine F4U Corsairs ground attacks were conducted at such said low altitudes that they could see the pilots grinning faces!
Like the top gun pilot remark saying .. the only limitation this plane had in the pacific theater during WW2 was the number of bullets it could carry ..
@@ThunderAppeal sorry the auto correct sometimes get me. Hope you have better things in life to do than complain about spelling. You got the point though right dumb ass?
@@ThunderAppeal lol by the looks of your profile you have time to troll everything. Keep up the good work. We need people like you to do nothing in life but to pick on people's posts. I'll go back to working on plains. Troll!
@@bwma If I knew you were maintaining an aircraft that I was a passenger in I would immediately demand to be replaned to a different aircraft, one that you had no hand in at all.
I have pictures from Zamboanga PI, Moret Airfield VMF 211, 1945. Evidently some of these photos may be of VMF115 as they were sister Squadrons to each other. I have a photo of Joe's Jokers logo on the side of the Squadron's Bar Counter. I always seek info on these pictures. 13 th AF with P-38's were also on Moret Airfield Zamboanga PI.
I remember the first and last time I saw a Corsair ! It was 119 ft down on A scuba dive in the South Pacific off the coast of Hawaii. 4 or 5 miles out and it was amazing to see a plane that was crash dived and I was told at that point that the man that flew the plane was still alive living on the island and this island that was diving off was Oahu and you can still see the plane because it's still exist out there but go on the internet and it's still there in photographs and if you want to go dive on it you can still dive on it ! But it was amazing because the tow hook was still on it obviously and if you look at the tow hook guess what's living there a moray eel and no threat because eels don't attack humans ! But it's for the most part still fully intact the seat gone because you know the leather dissipates over time in salt water and the prop is bent back because you know when they splash in the ocean it bends back and the left wing is pretty much gone but yeah it was really cool seeing it anyway, it's cool seeing something from history down that far in the ocean and that was back in 2004 and it's now August of 2022 am I diving still has not stopped and now I'm 55 🤔so I'll move on to my next drive ,anyway everybody be well and be safe and vote Republican because we need to save the United States of America !!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
