Listen To How The WW2 Corsair Got Its Nickname 

Ohhhh not good.

Hahahahaha. Savage

*carrier battle flashback intensefies

I'll bet that was hard on your Grandpa!

@@rickchapman4240 nah more like his gramps got a hard on cuz he missed the great and thrilling days.

Google his name because there has to be a record of him or his squadron somewhere. If you can find his obituary it will say what squadron he served in and when you Google the squadron it will have details of all the bases it operated out of and a list of the battles it participated in. I wouldn't be surprised to find an interview of him somewhere.

@@danielebrparish4271was gonna say this, I’d like to see what he did

​@@danielebrparish4271I would like to find out more about this polit myself?? 🇺🇸😎

Its made up. Good luck I hope I am wrong here.​@danielebrparish4271

By the way he was Coursair Avaitor!

That's 'cause we're all old now too!

ghoulunathics I think old warbirds are the most beautiful thing in the air.

Yea have you seen modern day f-16 they fly kinda like star wars

Aviation is a strict business, you can't fly a beater plane like you'd drive a beater car. That, and the people who own these things do so because they love them.

Very aesthetically pleasing.

The SU 57 aswell

@@alexandre007opa No, the difference between the SU 57 and the others is that the other three have rightfully earned their status. The SU 57 is just a baby in terms of history.

Don't forget the BUFF, the B52s. Death from 30,000 feet, good bye mountains.

BBBBBRRRRRTTTT....

And the P51

FoiledNoMore man that is awesome. Damn

When I went to my first Navy Squadron we had a civilian tech rep with us that was an Aviation Ordnanceman on the Bonne Homme Richard in F4U Corsair squadron. At the time we were using the A7E Corsair II light attack jets. Hearing his tales of working on the F4U in WW2 and Korea was awesome, wish I had written those stories down.

a Korean guy salute to your grandfather.

God bless your Grandfather...FNM!!!

A BIG Thank You to your Grandfather!

This is one of my favorite comments ever. Thank you Carpe.

Thank you Carpe, very cool!

psych.....

Also Japanese Soldier: was I supposed to fly the plane and bomb them, or crash into them (no stereotype to Japanese Bois they aight now and always have been, just those types of Japanese that were bad)

Corsair: SCREEEEEEEAAAAAAM! Japanese Imperial Army: RUN! No hate to anyone who is Japanese or of Japanese descent. Peace, out.

Imagine being part of a Japanese tank crew

@@AlteryxGaming I got the shivers!

@@AlteryxGaming imagine the Japanese even having enough tanks to pin down anything at all

@@phantomaviator1318 Paper boxes on tracks with 37mm guns.

Ha can't relate

Wait, actually, give me that. * takes back trumpet*

Sukacita Yeremia Good one 😂😂

H8dolf Schmitler press G to gas

@@arclight8479 S

Po-2: *UNDETECTED UNEXPECTED*

Amen to that.

The only thing to make the film is to be able to shoot those 50cals. Awesome film.

David Smith Very beautiful. The B-17 is the most beautiful plane I’ve ever seen. The Germans won just about every category in style I.E. uniforms tanks etc. Our planes were more stylish!

exactly. a hotrod pure and simple

@@gregbernstein6430 Agreed. I had an instructor back in college who flew B-17s in the Eighth Air Force out of England. One of my favorite World War Two bombers. They got the job done.

Horrifying

Scary when it starts bombing

Last thing you'd ever see

Not only shooting but rocketing and/or bombing!

I know it's so insane to me that people actually lived this! And how young most of these pilots were too, a different breed back then lol

They became the favorite plane of the USMC.

My friend’s dad got to meet Pappy Boyington back in the 80’s before he died

Was definitely the A10 of its day

@@kogykun4928 That would be the P-39 or P-47

@@juicebox9465 P-47 wasn't even built with ground attack in mind lol, it was just moved to that role once P-51s started taking over its role as a high-altitude fighter. though it was admittedly very good at ground attack, it wasn't designed for it like a Warthog.

It takes a certain person to want to keep these things in the air.

I totally 100% agree. I'm sick of the over produced videos. Just keep it simple, it's more effective.

Now if they just would put a wind sock on the mic so we didn't have to listen to all that rumble covering over the whistle. It's like trying to watch a 104 video and hearing nothing but wind, crowd noise and an over enthusiastic announcer proclaiming that the red and white wires in the fire control bundle were often mistook for the White with Red wires in the navigation control bundle or some other minutia. But it's a pretty good video other then that. Some day, when the wind is down, hopefully someone will get the same video free of noise.

@Elkabong53708: Amen, Brother. Amen indeed!

Amen!! I like to hear every sound the plane makes, inside and out....

And those two letters of its designation is what the US was saying to the Zeroes.

Soyboys who complained about the word death in the title be my guess

Maybe japanese

Zero pilots do...

Probably because there's no crappy music overlaying the sound of the airplane?

@@mikepowers8607 Haha... people are funny aren't they?

A-10 and Corsair are neck and neck for me. Brrrrt

About 15 years ago,while helping to build homes in state college,Pa.,I looked up to see A zero flying at about 500'. I wonder if It could have been the same one you are talking about?

@johnnywad7728 The Japanese Zero is based out of Ventura County, California. It took a long, tedious process to restore the plane. I am also aware of a group that is restoring another ww2 plane, but I don't know what the plane is that the group is restoring.

@@charlespaschal5641 awesome. What kills me is watching videos of these old war birds being stacked up like cordwood,ready to be chopped up and melted down,right after the war. But I guess it was no different than going to a auto salvage yard in the 70s and seeing 50s and 60s muscle cars being stripped and crushed for scrap. If ONLY....! Thanks for responding. Have a good day.

@johnnywad7728 it is sad, there are some people working on restoring planes from that era. I would like to be part of that group restoring the planes. Unfortunately, I no longer live in Ventura County, and it would be a commute to help on the weekend when I am available.

picture a calm day at sea. a japanese sailor walks out on the deck. looks across the great blue ocean and he heres this weird mosquito sound from far far away... then he is far far away

@@jacktattis143 the next ship over heard it, right before the bombs crashed through the deck.

@@elijahsellers3727 ??????????

@@jacktattis143 saying that the Jap that didn't hear the bomb was on a ship that was part of a fleet that was attacked by Corsairs and Dauntless dive bombers, so the guy you mentioned didn't hear the Corsair's whistle, but a guy on an adjacent ship heard the whistle, right before the bombs from one of the Dauntless bombers crashed through the deck of the ship and detonated.

@@elijahsellers3727 OK clear as mud

Everything that makes a flying video great.

The sound of a radial is all the music you need. I love 'em.

I just was about to post the same thing, you're in my brain!

must be lovers

Best comment! "Bent" wings were to get the wheels down low enough for the prop to clear the ground, eh?

Diamond Butter I was wondering the same thing! At first I was trying to think of some profanity word that fit, but then I thought it only looked like the word death. What’s so bad about that??

@@JerryN7970 RU-vid is sanitizing itself. If it's not advertiser friendly it won't get recommended.

Friggin snowflakes

Fuckin snowflakes *

@@killermurderer2208 They really are ruining things

Prove it.

@@guavaburst Google it

@@toddjants5702 I have and there's never a source behind it...

@@toddjants5702 The only Japanese nickname for the Corsair I could find from an extensive Google search was "Sikorsky" (as in Vought-Sikorsky).

All I know is that whether or not they did, they should’ve

Copied the stuka

@@jordanposvar3616 I'm pretty sure they were bent like that because it's role as a carrier fighter. Not because of the Stuka.

@@r.u.s.e3586 I heard years ago that the wings were bent like that so the landing gear wouldn't have to be ridiculously tall on account of that gigantic propeller

bledlbledlbledl I found out about that just yesterday actually. I went and looked it up.

@@r.u.s.e3586 The Gull wings were for the 12 foot 9 in. prop!

What a joy that must have been 😍

Brian Barrow No you didn’t.

Is it still flightworthy or you just restore it as a display only?

@@MuhdIqbal i also helped , it was for display

Sweet!!

Jack, God bless you and your father. Great use of parentheses.

Lol i just finnished building revell one too (1:72) also gonna show it off..

I'll take things that never happened for 100, Pat

No that's not correct! The wings were bent downward for a place to mount the oil coolers for the engine. See those two air intakes on each side of the wing root that's for the oil coolers the whistling sound you hear is the air rushing over the them! That is why the nose of a Corsiar is thinner than a Hellcat even though they use the same engine! The oil coolers for the Hellcat are in the fuselage and that's why they don't have opening's in the wing roots! Also the Hellcat Prop is the same size as the Corsair.

You are both wrong. The inverted gull wing was because of aerodynamics alone. The Corsair was intended to be as fast as possible, which requires minimal drag. The fuselage is essentially circular in cross section, and it was discovered that a wing exiting such a fuselage x where the vertical centerline of the wing was not in line with the center of the fuselage, created significant parasitic drag. If you look head on, the wing root section essentially points directly at the longitudinal axis of the fuselage. It was not done this way to create short landing gear, it was not done this way to provide clearance for the prop, nor was it done to make space for the oil coolers. (Look at the F6F the used the same prop/engine, but was significantly slower). The design was entirely for aerodynamics. The other things were merely side benefits.

@@scrappydude1 Didn't I say the the Corsair noise was thinner because of the oil cooler placement (less drag) in the wings? I knew that and that's why the P-47 is fatter because the turbo induction is in the body also even though it also uses the same R2800 engine! So no I'm not wrong!

Pffff

Normie. 😂😂😂

@@Andromedon777 That's right. A monster of a plane.

Grumman F6F: *Cries in 50. Caliber*

@@murphym3755 Not as potent as the 20 mm Cannon and Brit fighters had 4 from 1941 What happened to the US still using Machine Guns OH that is right they had trouble making a cannon

I'll have a Corsair and a Stuka, what else?

My second would be that all wooden twin engine British Mosquito. That bird was even faster and lighter and very agile.

Hmm, nice, I think I might want a Dornier Do 335, if you don't know what it is, look up in Google for pictures.

I had to look at it, but yeah. A push pull design like a Sky Master.

Radials you mean. There are two.

MJBull515 my grandpa was the chief mechanic for vmf 214 his character in the show was played by red west

The black sheep squadron

MJBull515 Rest In Peace Maj Gregory Boyington

Rest In Peace Maj Boyington

@@marcodifruscio3707 pappy.

Impressive

@@michaeldundee8300 : close ground support role primarily

Did he survive?

Semper -Fi

Congrats!

about 20 years ago, i went to Indianapolis air show, when they had perhaps the last reunion of black sheep..vmf214. there were about 10 corsairs there.

also went to the last gathering of mustangs back in 2009 in columbus,ohio... there were 78 mustangs!

Ron Lawrence US Navy found F4U and P-51 equal up to 12,000 feet. At that point the P-51 became lunch.

Mark Engel I've long thought that Japan should have kept its pilots on the ground and waited for all the Corsairs to be crashed by the young ensigns and second looies.

man if you ask me, i'd say the thunderbolt is the prettiest warbird around. its big, fast, tough, reliable, and menacing to look at. especially the D or N version. you dont see corsairs flying with 300+ bullet holes , 3 pistons missing and a foot of the wing shredded off everyday dont you? well P47D pilots meet these circumstances almost daily. but im not saying Corsairs are bad cause they arent. these planes are thoroughbred fighters none of them are bad they just have they're own quirks.

Im pretty sure the armament on the warbirds was supersonic too. :D

@@Arnechk nothing worse than when your flying your plane and trying to shoot something.on the ground with these useless slow bullets..

Tim Alting yep i remember that! awesome show!

I've been watching it on TV every Sunday for the past few months.

Same .

Baa, Baa, Baa. . .

Got it on DVD

Some planes just have that look. One of my favorites is the F4 Phantom. It looks like a plane the bad guys would use.

F4 is a nasty beast, like fire breathing dragon nasty. My all around favorite has to be P51D mustang. A great white shark.

take a look at the german FW190A

Or the ME 262. Like your 'ancient man' comment-if he had any doubts, the 50 cal would remove them. The mustang sounded incredible.

Hearing a mustang 's R,R, Merlin engine is on my bucket list. I've seen what a 50cal can do to a car frame at 300yards. OH DAMN! That was so cool.

Please be aware that this is not a matter of HAFU being PC -- it's RU-vid. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and at some point was basically 'shut down' by RU-vid's algorithms. :-(

Didn't notice

I thought it said The Whistling Dick

95TurboSol can some kind person please explain why the wings are that shape? Much appreciated

From what I've read they used inverted Gull style wings for lots of reasons but a couple are the propeller was so large they needed more ground clearance and so they put the landing gear at the lowest part of the bend of the wing which raised the height compared to flat wings. Another reason is the wings folded at the bend for use on aircraft carriers to save space, it especially saved space vertically when they were folded. And finally I think the shape helped aerodynamics in some way

Also, the shape decreased the length of the landing gear struts and thus made it more durable as it was designed for carrier operations.

95TurboSol the bent wing was to provide extra height for the huge propeller. It would come in contact with the deck on take-offs and landings with a straight wing.

Made in my home state of Connecticut One of the many contributions for the war effort Along with the Norden bombsight Marlin Winchester High Standard made internally suppressed firearms for the OSS

Thank you

Yes, that's correct. We don't have a problem with the word, RU-vid does. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and after being live for a few weeks RU-vid effectively censored it when their algorithms found the video and its title. Hence we're now very careful when it comes to using some words in our titles and thumbnails. It's a shame but when you can't even appeal to a real person at RU-vid there's not much more we can do. :-(

Damn that’s stupid! Death and taxes are the two sure things in this world. Has RU-vid got their heads in the sand? If we sensor death 💀 it won’t happen? No one would be offended by it? Hate to break it to ya RU-vid but we all die one day.

RU-vid must be the type of kids that sit down to pee.

Death death DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH😉 There, that's not so bad 😎

@@historicalmachines They are trusting their AI algorithms too much. It isn't the first time this has happen. Shut another channel down because he used Nazi flags to identify Nazi ships in WWII naval battles. Banning the word death is just too much. It's worse than the PC police.

2,800 cubic inches of raw power and absolute terror if you're the one unfortunate enough to be in the crosshairs. A battle-ax with wings and a propeller!

Chris Nizer even worse when you see one loaded with bombs, rockets, and napalm heading straight for you

me favorite ww2 planes 1. p51d mustang 2. this 3. f6f hellcat 4. tbf avenger 5. me 262

F4U-Corsair in my favorite radial engine fighter and the P51-Mustang is my favorite V-12 Fighter but it has to be the Merlin V-12 not the Allison V-12.

circlecloud11 Let me get the P-51 Mustang fan boys. all up in arms!!! As great a plane it was it still was NOT an all American plane like the F4U Corsair!!! Yes, yes the Mustang was a good bird in its day! But the Corsair was THE best ALL American design! Proof in the pudding is when was the last Corsair made versus the Mustang. And to put some salt into the wounds the last Mustang did not even have the Packard/Merlins and those planes (F-82) were not good!!! So Ya!!!! CORSAIRS RULE!!!! AND WHILE YOUR AT IT GO MGTOW!!!! LOL!!!!

+Josef Trumpeldor A few of our videos do include some music, but usually that's only in special cases for dramatic (or comedic) effect, or when we don't actually have good audio of the aircraft being shown. Where possible we always try and ensure our videos include just the realistic aircraft (and vehicle) audio, because that's what we enjoy too!

+Historical Aviation Film Unit Thank you for your friendly reply!

oh there's music alright. Rhythm for US and blues for them

REMEMBER USS LIBERTY

No dramatic affects are ever needed to showcase planes. Just Engine and and clear video and GTFO the way.

Ju87: hold my beer

Until a Marine hit it with a stinger

Dustin Nance I hope you mean the Marine wouldn’t hit a Corsair with the Stinger, the Corsair was an American plane even used by the marines. Maybe i’m wrong and you know that already, but idk

@@Gotobar I think he was referring to the ju87, not the corsair

p. f. No he knows what he said lol

In today's woke military I guess he could still marry his flight school instructor. Adam and Steve...

@@ohgary Ya, I knew I had to put in the word "female".

@John Deez Unlike Liz Warren, it's all factual, but there's more: For the next 60 years he always got on his knees and said his prayers before bed as he knew there is a God. During a flight in WW2, he got in a fatal dive and grabbed a scapular hanging around his neck and said a quick prayer before certain death...when he opened his eyes he found himself flying level.

Top Gun? I think Maverick is practicing desert bombing in preparation for the Area 51 raid. (See the new Top Gun thriller.)

If he had behaved so in the RAF they would have sent him to the Orkneys

Kirk Fiorentino Hmmmm. Always thought the Hellcat were the bad asses during most of the war. Hellcats were credited with destroying circa 5,223 enemy aircraft while in service. This was more than any other Allied naval aircraft. Performance-wise the Corsair was preferred over the Hellcat being considerably faster than the Hellcat (until the Thunderbolts came along with their upgrades motors and intercooled turbochargers.). A "Potatoe vs Potato" type argument I guess.

No way! The badass of the Pacific at the start and late into that region's war was absolutely the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Nothing the allies had was even close to it in dogfighting ability until very late in the war and even then the Zero had a few superior points. The US plane that caught up to and is usually acknowledged as the best allied plane in the theatre was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the Mustang which it was based on was an awesome plane too but mostly in Europe. The F4U Corsair was the best carrier based plane though. The corsair was not up to a direct fight with a zero or the later and better Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate. It was superior to just about anything the allies had by the war's end.

Tin Cup agreed, but the Corsair didn’t enter service till well after the war started so had a head start

The P-38 achieved more victories than any other fighter in the Pacific.

5500 kills ..ssssure .. we know from comparing historical data that pilots overclaimed on all sides by at least 3 to 1 . The plane which took on the Corsair more than evenly in results was the Shiden Kai .. specifically of 343 Kokutai. Give good planes and good training and it all changes.

Japanese grandpa: _hears all the plane noises_ Japanese grandpa: *_starts having seizures_*

(TIE fighter screech in distance)

P-51: *ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo*

Pretty sure the folding wing joints and the cavities inside for guns/fuel tanks/intercooler lead to that whistle

88SC Wow! Didn't know that. Holy cats! That's one bad ass engine!

Finally someone that knows the difference between an intercooler and a charge cooler. awesome.

88SC, Thanks I was wondering.

Harmonics , find and the bell of the back edges of the cowling ? Idk , but thanks .

Not find...fin ; like a reed in a saxiphone

Thanks Pat -- we appreciate the fact that you noticed the camera work and production! :-)

Yeah, I'm not knowledgeable about aircraft, but that bent wing style caught my eye straightaway. Did it improve airspeed and in-flight manoeuvreability ??

@@colinread1159 It was Shaped like that to Minimize the Space they took up on carriers with their wings folded in the up position.

@@len-zeplin480 Aaah, I get it. Thanks for that - I have seen military aircraft with fold-up wings before, but hadn't put 2 and 2 together.

The wings were bent to afford the small landing gear to make clearance for the massive propeller. The front prop had to employ all of the plane’s 2000 horsepower which caused it to be massive. So they swooped the wings for better ground clearance on take off and landing.

Ensign Eliminator

Here he is making a guest appearance on the the TV show "Baa Baa Blacksheep". //ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wKYcKwjBb7o.html

that's awesome. thanks for sharing your story.

The Corsair used an air cooled radial engine... no radiators.

Look at the Bf 109

Me too

Agreed

Used to watch that show with my Dad. Looked forward to the show and the time with Dad.

I loved that show for the planes. I had a model I would fly around the house when I was 6.

Good ;)

Not to mention the full compliment of bombs the thing could carry with the B variants carrying up to 6 bombs weighing 4000 lb in total, or an option for 8 rockets.. Quite the multi role aircraft it was.

The 50's on aircraft had a much higher rate of fire than the ones soldiers on the ground used, so that must have added to the effect.

@Hoa Tattis Yeah the tempest and P-47 and P-38 were great aircraft to in the ETO from land based air fields. Still, the Corsair was a hell of a good aircraft considering it was capable of taking off from a Carrier. Something none of those other planes were capable of doing.

@Hoa Tattis Seafire was not better than a F4U if that's what you are saying.

​@Hoa Tattis So this is horribly inaccurate. The Seafire had a clime rate of 16.5 m/s and a top speed of 359mph the F4U had a climb rate of 22.1 m/s and a top speed of 446 mph, It's not even close, the F4U-4 was a monster compared to the seafire, and was capable of being a very competent bomber with weight it could carry. The F4U-4 could carry 4,000lbs of bombs compared to 500lbs for the seafire. There is a reason even the British wanted mass amounts of F4U as soon as they could get them. Even the early models of F4U in the prototype phase at the very start of the war outperformed land based Spitfires. Then you say bad carrier plane? So bad they continued to use it trough the Korean war too? It was awkward, and dangerous compared to some other carrier aircraft with such a long nose and heavy weight, but bad, that's going to be a objective no. Being a aircraft with similar capability to a P-47 but carrier capable made up for it being awkward with bad visibility on landing. The only part you are right about here is the Seafire had cannons, which is kind of a moot point because the .50cals on American planes did the job just fine. By the way I am not saying the Seafire was some awful plane or anything, but it was never a match for the F4U, I think that is well supported by data and statistics.

@Hoa Tattis The speed of 446mph was for the F4U-4 the late war variant, the 422mph would have been for the early model F4U. The Sea fury wasn't introduced until 2 years after the end of WW2, so that's kind of a moot point in comparison. The Mossie was a fantastic aircraft, especially early war, and it also wasn't capable of taking off from a carrier. Also the 4,000 pound bomb load of the F4U wasn't just the US putting more loads on a G/A plane then it was designed for, when compared to the 500lb load of a Seafire, The F4U had a vastly superior engine with almost double the horsepower. Using the Pratt & Whitney R-2800-18W radial engine, 2,380 hp The F4U was so impressive because it was good at both high and low altitude, matching the FW190 in performance, actually dropping off in performance above 20,000ft where the P-47 took a strong lead due to its massive supercharger, and later the P-51. The Cannons being universally better than .50cal is a complete myth. I suggest you go watch the video "The Ugly Truth: Cannons better than .50cal?" here on RU-vid about that very topic. The only thing cannons were objectively better at was taking down large multi engine bombers, something the US didn't really need to do, and penetrating ground armor, something that could be done with rockets and bombs. .50cal tracer rounds were more than enough for instance to take out Japanese aircraft that had virtually no armor or self sealing fuel tanks. While I personally do think the inline machine gun in the nose along with a cannon in the propeller hub is a better design than both what the British and Americans had, as the Russians and German aircraft designs utilized. This kept the aircraft light, took weight out of the wings creating greater maneuverability and roll rate, and was effective at any range, unlike wing mounted guns that had to have pre-set convergence. This is actually why one of my favorite fighters of WW2 is the Yak 9T, a fast maneuverable fighter with a 37mm high velocity cannon that fires right through the properly hub with 12.7mm machine guns in the nose, now that is beast of an aircraft.

A regular at the annual WW2 airshow here in Pennsylvania flies a Wildcat. Does aerobatics with it that a UFO couldn't follow. Amazing what these old war birds can do in skilled hands.

I'm so sorry about your dad.

The Grumman F8F Bearcat would beg to differ.

My 3 favorite American fighters were Corsair, Mustang & Lightning'/!!! All 3 were Hell from above on the Axis powers'/!!! ⚡☄🤤😨💣💥🔥😵😱💀⚰

Don't forget the 109 and 190

@@DaDeCodeIsTruth You mean the plane that never saw wartime service in WWII?

@@codyking4848 doesn't matter it missed the war by months and there are plenty of test and encounters with allied fighters to verify it was superior in climb sped and maneuverability more often than not.

A handsome brute rather'/!!!

One of the problems with the original Cosairs was the fact that one wing would stall at low speeds before the other. This made it very dangerous on carrier traps. As a result, for awhile, the Navy confined F4U to land-based ops, including Marine units so equipped. A jury rig was installed using an angle iron on the root of the "good" wing, so it would stall out at the same airspeed as the "bad" one. Chance-Vought quickly modified subsequent models to eliminate the problem, and IIRC also increased the size of the vertical stabilizer.

James Barnard You could also torque roll a Corsair on the ground if you advanced the throttle too fast. The 2000 horsepower engine would just flip the plane if the pilot was not careful. Once the British Fleet Air Arm figured out how to land Corsairs on their carriers, they passed that information on to the US and trained our Marine and Navy pilots in carrier landings.

I guess that torque roll phenomenon is where the expression, "getting torqued off" came from ;)

Richard Lahan and

@@jamesbarnard9710 HA- THAT'S A NEW TWIST!!! ( get it? get it? get it? get it? SNUCKER-SNUCKER-SNUCKER SNUCKER-SNUCKER-SNUCKER!!)

Sorry but the Hellcat topped those three had over 5000 kills more than any allied fighter in ww2

"Stuka: I'm the scariest plane of WW2. Corsair: hold my beer." you meant- "hold my beer while I kick your ass"

gotta admit the IL-2 was also scary... called 'the black death' by germans. Had actual armor too

@@near--zero Ja, the flying tank, my favorite plane in Soviet Union.

You're joking right? This thing sounds like a rusty wheel lol

I'd be scared of the Stuka more, that shit sounds more terrifying. I would be confused hearing the Corsair especially for the first time, sounds like a damaged plane with some massive hole in it - reason for the whistling

And unfortunately this video can't convey what it would sound like in real life.

Larry Beguin Lucky guy. Probably the wildest ride of your life?

Never flown in one of those but I've been in the rear seat of an F-4 and an F-16 trainer. It was a wild ride!

My dad had a removable roof rack that did the same thing. It had a "C" shape with the opening of the "C" facing downward. It, too, had various tones depending on vehicle speed and wind speed and direction. Thanks, for the memory.

That is a great 'Dad thing'!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Don't forget the P-47 Thunderbolt

A lot of Zekes did, too!

galoon h

Nubbins the Japanese soldiers,called,the sound "divine wind"

many A6M2 Zero's brought down a lot of American fighters too.

The corsair had it's problems too. I was hard to land, no rearward visability, and was not nimble. However, she is still a ground breaking and beautiful aircraft.

Keith Skilling, ex RNZAF, Air New Zealand and Brietling Fighters. Very experienced warbird pilot.

Thanks for the info! I knew there was a simple reason for that.

Yep: it was to keep the landing gear a reasonable length. When they came up with the P-47, they invented telescoping landing gear, so the P-47's wings could be straight.

The prop and landing gear were part of it. A bigger part is they wanted to keep the fuselage narrow for more less drag and more speed. It has the same engine and almost the same prop as a hellcat but it's 50mph faster.

amesbancal was his name Jesse Folmar?

Or the pilot's skill

A U.S. Corsair shot down a Mig-15 in Korea also. But another Mig got him. They were that good.

Yea, Verily! Took the words right out of my mouth!

Just lucky.

Our pleasure!

Douglas Alexander Not to be rude in any way, Sir, but I would like to ask you about your dad's service. Was he a member of VMF-214, BOYINGTON'S BLACK SHEEP?

William Babyak, nothing rude about your question at all, sir. No, he was a member of VMSB-241, the Ace of Spades squadron, based at Majuro in the Marshall Islands.

May God be with him