F4U Corsair "Whistling Death" Flight Demonstration ! 

The F4U was, quite simply, the best overall fighter of the war. Period. I read a great article about this once where the author describes it this way. “The Corsair was a 9.5 out of 10 in everything. The few things where it wasn’t 1st place, it was second but by very little. It was as good at anything as any other type, and better in some areas. It had some degree of superiority over everything, and was equal in everything else. All the Corsair pilot had to do to in was refuse to fight where his opponent was slightly better “. In spring of 1944 the Navy did a series of fly offs between the F4U-1 and the P-51B. All flying was done by experienced combat pilots, and done along side each other so atmospheric conditions were always identical. I’ll let the results from the report speak for themselves. “The report states: It is concluded that, in general: There is little to choose between the P-51B and F4U-1 airplane in speed between sea level and 25,000 feet, and that above 25,000 feet, the P-51B is superior. That the F4U-1 is everywhere considerably superior in climb, at any comparable loading and superior in all other performance elements except diving speed. The F4U-1 is everywhere superior in maneuverability and response. With equal endurance, the F4U carries about 86% more armament and that it is a better gun flatform. In summary, the F4U-1 airplane appears to be the superior fighter for Naval or Marine employment, either land for ship-based except in the case where substantially all the fighting occurs above 25,000.”

Yes.

I kinda know how you feel. My dad was a Ajax missile soldier, we lost him years ago but not forgotten. 🌹🌹

Your dad was a hero! Literally

Such a miniscule percentage of those warbirds survive.

How old are you cuz do you realize WWII was like 80 years ago.

The corsair f4u was a beautiful fighter. Bless your Dad's soul. A hero.

Get a VR headset, decent joystick and throttle and DCS and you can virtually fly the P-51, and the F4U is in development.

SBD-3 Dauntles or P36-A Are Dream fighter Aircraft

Add the P-47

P38 and p40 for myself. But I loved them all. Even the British German and Japanese stuff. Soviet Union had some nice yaks and migs.

@@jummyranYep, loved the P-38 as well.

you are Mcdonald from the hamburgers?? (y) jeje

+Alejandro Parrello I think, you are idiot...

+Brenda McDonald Much Thanks To Your Father Ms. McDonald For His Service To Our Republic.____ A USAF Aircraft Mechanic Vet.

I salute your father! My dad served in the Korean War and also loved the Corsair. The Corsair is the only prop plane that actually shot down Russian Migs during the Korean War.

Actually, the seafury also shot down migs.

hey guys look a plane nerd lmao

Nope.

aMEILE rECONCULA: Yes indeed Brown describes it as a dud

No, this is a common misconception. The inverted gull wing was for aerodynamic purposes. The plane was designed to be as fast as possible. To do this you have to eliminate drag. The fuselage was cylindrical in cross section, and obviously the wing is mounted low on the fuselage, right,? Tests showed that a great deal of parasitic drag is created where a wing exits a cylinder at any point above or below the vertical centerline of the fuselage. If the wing were to exit at the centerline, with the vertical centerline of the wing in direct line with the vertical centerline of the fuselage, drag us greatly minimized. So what Vought did was bend the inner wing section upwards, aiming it at the fuselage centerline. This way the wing exited perpendicular to the fuselage. The side benefit was a shorter, stiffer, landing gear, that still allowed for clearance of the 13’4” prop. But remember, the F6F had the same engine/prop. There Grumman moved the wing up some, accepted some additional drag (the F6F wasn’t intended to match the Corsair in speed) and simply went with a longer gear.

My respects, Ma'am, and gratitude for your father's service. Semper Fi!

Cheeki breeki! What are you looking at western spy planes?

Westen Quasar 24 F gathering information for stalina

cheeki breeki are you communist spy?

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+Sidney Mathious It was faster{400mph+}

navy didn't like it that much to hard to see while taxing with the cockpit sitting so far back

+Sidney Mathious I have been told that the trade off was that it took a lot of rounds from the enemy to get that lucky kill shot , but the guns on Corsairs and Hellcats would down a Zero in seconds.

Yes, it was able to take plenty of damage and still fly. The Zero was built to be light and didn't have the ability to take much damage as the protection of the pilots in the Zero was low in priority when it was built.

+Sidney Mathious the F4U was way faster then the Zero

Ironically, VMF-214, the Black Sheep, were the first Marine squadron assigned to fly close air support missions over Korea.

Whistling Death, that's what the Japanese called them. 11-1 kill ratio.

And won! Against P-51 Mustangs, as my father the F4U pilot used to remind me.

It was the first plane I worked on when I joined the marine corps 1957 Last of the black sheep Great plane!!!!

it's such a sexy plane

it is

It whistles and ROARS at the same time!

That's why the F4U Corsair's nickname is "Whistling Death".

John McKenna Its actually really difficult to pilot one of these. And because of the big engine, landing was very sketchy! You can't see whats in front of you....

I see what you did there.

Uhhh, the 1928 Vought FU was obsolete almost as soon as it was in service, having been developed from the 1926 UO-1. Gotta love aircraft development history.

Nice fighter plane

william munar the engin was a PRATT AND WHITNEY PW he 's speed 667 km /h. 

Corsaire F4 U

***** F 4 U CORSAIR

Ok F 4 U