The spectacular sound of a Vought F4U Corsair (Startup, Take-off, Fly-by) 

Damn straight.

Smells like victory

Grateful for his service. Semper fi!

If he's still living, tell him thank you for me. Truly the greatest generation.

@@michaelboykin9881 Unfortunately no... He would have been 100 today if he were still alive.

Poetry, art, and emotion. The best dam girl in the sky.

I'm from Grand Prairie, and I always loved the Corsair

Somewhere high up above Pappy Boyington is smiling down on all us sayin oh my gosh no sheet nuggets....

Brutal tork!

I said this before including in person to Kurt Walton that somewhere high up above Pappy B is smiling down on all of Corsair lovers.

Fleet Air Arm also used these fantastic aircraft. They sorted out their problems and certified their carrier use.....one of the best.

Have never seen one. Most favorite . 2 - p47 T-Bolt and 3- C 47 . It would be neat to see even a wreck of a Coursair . I understand there are so many left of the corsair. Would like to see one before they are gone. Please keep G R Ford Airport in Grand Rapids , Michigan for a show this summer . Please consider. Thanks .

Chilling!!!!

Pretty silly

Somewhere Greg Boyington is smiling down on all of us watching this stuff. I felt a kinship with Greg pappy when I got drafted into Iraq in 2001. I was accused of being him. I am a nonconformist sheet kicker. A man of my own style even begged to be court marshalled just like Greg did in late 1943 at the end of the war just before he was captured he had had enough. Greg I think was captured sometime early in 44 and said he just rode his days out in the prison camp because the Japanese treated him okay knowing how controversial the guy was they were not gonna abuse him that much. Upon his return from capture he told a senator I think was named Rolland to go to hell when the senator wanted to use him as campaign cow Boyington told the Senator to go sheet in his hat. In a bizarre twist Boyington insisted he had constantly been having drinks and meals with one of the Generals that ran the prison camp Yahatshi something I think was the Generals name. Boyington insisted as long as their talks began with the advancements he knew of concerning U.S. Navy war ships they then thereafter continually talked about what their endeavors would be after the war was over. Boyington said Yahatshi said it was too bad his daughter couldn't hook up with a warrior of Greg's stature. Greg wrote in his book he took it as compliment not a come on.

Drafted? Really?

The smell of the fuel and exhaust…

That sounds like a blast!!

You should try the, Pensacola Naval Air museum. There are planes from WW1 and WW2 as well as some modern aircraft, such as the SR71. I took my boys back in the early 90s. We also stopped off and visited the USS Alabama, in Mobil Bay.

There had been a video that Diamond P sports had of an unspecified carrier at sea 1944 had a flock of Corsairs warming up on deck and taking off. It was that long ago it was on Beta tape early mid 1980s. I had worn that tape out to this day it is my favorite aircraft of all time and my shop & offices is smothered in model Corsairs and RC Corsairs. I am a marine black squadron A-10 pilot. Don't let em fool ya only the AF flies the A-10 that ain't true no more after Iraq. Marines have 2 black Squadrons of em 4 planes each. I flew way over 90 sorties over Iraq. The Navy disqualified me because I am color blind but that leads to other gifts like being able to read a bill board a little less than a half mile away which still blows my families minds and being able to see right thru a camo covered target and detect movement because I might be color blind but I am extremely far sighted. I can totally smoke a target 4 to 6 miles away & not even use electronic sighting. And I truly believe in my heart that Greg Pappy Boyington had my very same handicapped blessings from hearing reading stories about him. One tail of Boyington is the fact he just saw a glint of a little tiny reflection out of the corner of his eye in his canopy window went inverted straight down came back up like rocket ship and smoked a Zero that was after him with a single burst from his guns. Fantasy? No not if he had my eye sight gift not at all. I have high perf vision perception and I could have done such a thing as I am thee one thee only A-10 jock to ever have smoked a soviet made Mig over the Iraq Iran border ever. I saw a glint pulled my flaps and my speed brake jammed the throttle to nil went over on one wing saw the mig and smoked it with my gun not a rocket. The guy blew by me fired one rocket at me way too late. Then his butt was all mine. Boyington was god gifted not just a gifted pilot he had some other attributes other people regular people cannot comprehend. It was not all skill. Some of the skills were gods giftings.

How do you feel about the Hellcat and the thunderbolt? They used the same engine

Think the gull wing is how they got that big prop on them...😊

@@gmm6885 The Gull Wings was to make the landing gear shorter and stronger.

Bro🤣

Hose nose!

Yeah I resemble that remark.

A legend among legends!

@@TheAviatorsTV F4U what? Which variation

Bf-109 emil

Aren't they all!

“Hose Nose”

Only before the strut issue was corrected and the Brits figured out the proper landing approach. After that it was no harder to land than anything else.

Go Pros were not made for Corsairs landing gear.

Ours too!

@@johnklatt3522 thanks John

That is one sexy lady. Whistling Death was a fitting name especially if it was after you

@@johnklatt3522 thanks John

Jim's Corsair here wasn't on the show. There is another F4U-4B that was in it which is still around. That one is 97359. Flew in Korea, Black Sheep Squadron TV, and was flown as #205 in the upcoming movie "Devotion" based off Adam Makos' book (Tom Hudner's plane). It flies under a new scheme now since it was reunited with a pilot who flew it in Korea. They painted it to look like as he flew it.