I work in a nursing home. One day I noticed a book in one of my patient's rooms, entitled F-4-U Corsair. I asked him if he was a Corsair pilot. He said "Yep, sure was." I asked him how many Japanese plans he shot down. He is 101 years old so his memory is not was it used to be. He said. "I don't remember any more but i know I shot a hell of a lot of them, most of them went down, a few didn't but I know I hit them." I have always liked this man, he is funny as hell. But after that conversation I had even more respect for that warrior.
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.
My grandfather loaded the .50's, the bombs, and the rockets on these in Korea on the USS Bonne Homme Richard. I showed this to him, and he had the biggest smile.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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)
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!
@@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.
@@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
The Whistle was induction noise for the HUGE supercharger . Similar thing to the Vulcan's "Howl" . Corsairs were a VERY versatile Fighter/Ground attack machine .
@@kennethsizer6217 Well, shucks. I wish I WAS an aerodynamicist! Then we could talk fluid mechanics... how angle of attack affects laminar air flow... how a gull wing MAY produce unique vortices intersecting 1/2" holes? But I'm not. 😎
The Corsair has been my favorite plane and the second has been the P-38 lighting. Before this Covid Pandemic hit, I had the opportunity to be a passenger in a 2 seater Japanese Zero. The Zero was restored by a friend, 15 years later and its airborne. It was an experience that I will not forget about.
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.
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
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
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 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.
@@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
@@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.
I know most people get all weak kneed for the Mustang, but in my opinion, the Corsair was the most beautiful airplane ever built. I've only seen one in person, and that was years ago at the Scottsdale Airpark here in AZ. The pilot started her up with me standing maybe 200 yards away. No video can do that sound justice. You could almost feel the bass and the rumble in your bones.
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.
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.
Boy do I love that bird. The sound of that radial engine. The aesthetics of the set back cockpit and those gull wings. People disagree, but if I could own any WWII aircraft, it would be the Corsair.
Hands down my favorite WWII fighter. With that big radial and those bent wings it's just beautiful despite it's deadly purpose. I love the P51 too but the Corsair is just so beautiful to watch fly.
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!
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!!!!
Yes, that's correct. We don't have a problem with the word, TH-cam does. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and after being live for a few weeks TH-cam 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 TH-cam there's not much more we can do. :-(
Damn that’s stupid! Death and taxes are the two sure things in this world. Has TH-cam 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 TH-cam but we all die one day.
@@HistAvFilmUnit 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.
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??
I could run this video on the big screen tv with surround sound and watch for hours. If ancient man saw this machine he'd instantly know it was for killing.
Air passing through the intake ducts at the leading edge is what generates the whistle. Specifically, the guide vanes that split and direct flow to the engine air intake, the oil coolers and intercoolers. It's not turbocharged, but it has a two-stage mechanical supercharger, with an intercooler between the stages.
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.
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@@lucientintenebris7331 The Hellcats had the most kills because they were chosen to be the standard fighter for the navy. The Corsair was originally slated to be their main fighter, but they had problems with them that weren't worked out until later, so they were used by land-based Marines mostly. Great Corsair documentary: th-cam.com/video/gWIhcHbPdAE/w-d-xo.html
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.
I remember when I was maybe 10 years old (1956) I built a Revell model of this plane and proudly showed it to my Dad when I was finished. Dad was a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal Bouganville and Guam. He looked at it a few minutes then told me what a good job did on it. Then out of the blue he said, "Some of the few Jap(anese) prisoners we took were terribly afraid of this plane. They called it 'the Whistling Death'.."
My understanding is the gull-shaped wings were necessary to provide sufficient ground/deck clearance for its huge prop. Also heard “whistling” was attributed to airflow over the gun ports, same with P-51s.
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!
Please be aware that this is not a matter of HAFU being PC -- it's TH-cam. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and at some point was basically 'shut down' by TH-cam's algorithms. :-(
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
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'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
+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!
Soooo cool old prop jobs making noise!! Man what a plane! I also like The P-51 mustang! My Pop was a member of the United States Army Air Corps. Pop thanks for everything!! I miss you!
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.
Every time this thing flys by I don't know why I but it gives me goose bumps. It's intoxicating, I can't stop watching this video. I can only imagine what it's like being there in person.
The Corsair also had other nicknames. My Dad flew off of aircraft carriers in the South Pacific in WWII as a turret gunner on the TBM Avenger. Because the Corsair was very unforgiving in the hands of an inexperienced pilot during carrier landing operations, it developed the name "Ensign Eliminator". The corsair is however my favorite military aircraft of all time..
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.
When I was in flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, USA (in 1966), there were quite a few Corsairs in preservative. I used to sit and look at them, because they are such beautiful birds. Later, I was flying an aircraft that made its own distinctive howl as it approached, the F-4 Phantom II. It, too, had bent wings.Both aircraft held speed records during their time. The Phantom's howl was associated with the variable inlet guide vanes on the engine compressor. Thank you for the post!
I do not believe the corsair held the world speed record, I mean the Germans had the Me-163 and Me-262 around that time, and the Brits where almost done with the glostor meteor.
+Gavin Moody You're probably correct. I suppose there was some stipulation such as "piston-powered," when people would say the F4U was the fastest, or, perhaps it was a flat wrong statement. What we do know though, it was an effective fighter aircraft, and I still think it's a beautiful bird. :)
Have you ever seen the super corsair? That thing is amazing! (The fastest piston aircraft of the time was a German one, I think it was nick named the arrow or something it had one engine in the front, ang one in the rear as a pusher)
+Bob M P38, P47 and P51 were all fast rides. Which one was the fastest in which configuration is the question. In a dive, level flight, about X flight level.
That is surely a unique sound. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on your side) by the time it's closed enough distance for you to be able to hear that 'my front porch screen door is creakin'' noise...it's probably already released its ordnance.
My uncle flew the Corsair in WW2. Buzzed the field one day when a parade was going on. The General picked himself off the ground and dusted off and sent him to the most dangerous place he could think of in the Pacific. As a Marine aviator, he survived the war and took down 6 enemy planes to boot. (never talked about that) Went on to the Korean war and flew unarmed Jets in a recon squadron. Got the DFC. On a personal level, he married his training navigator instructor in flight school (a female Marine sergeant) and stayed married 50+ years. Kind of like the Top Gun movie plot.
@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.
I once had the opportunity to visit Osh Kosh EAA fly in in 1979. My favorite engine sounds came from the Corsairs that were flying there. I'll never forget it!
These and the P-51 helped our American WWII vets keep this great nation what it is today. I’m sure that the F-35 in all its greatness still salutes these old war birds when they meet on the runway out of GREAT respect.
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.
The unfortunate answer is 'Yes'. A proviso version of this video used that word in the title of the video, and after being live for a few weeks TH-cam effectively censored the video when the algorithms found the video and it's 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 someone at TH-cam there's not much more we can do. :-(
Yes they are: words like " brother " & "sister" are sure to be on the chopping block. As I watch these old war birds , think of grandpa's stories & what folks & life was about back then & wonder just what is going on in society today & what the hell went wrong.☹
Yeah, in this day and age of ‘offending’ people, man buns and gender unidentified (check your pants) we are but sheep being led to slaughter with all the manipulation we are delt with in this technological world of today. God! (Also soon to be censored) its as if Prime As**...Minister Trudeau is getting his fairytale wishes come true! Lol. Cheers to all the veterans who gave it their best to dealing with the evil empires who tried to bring DEATH to our past generations of decent peaceful people!
@newagetojo a single round can penetrate 20mm of Armour steel, 100 rounds can eat right trough a reinforced 5 foot thick Concrete bunker, the .50 is the badest bit*h in the block.
@@jacktattis143 ..... Wasn't the beufighter such a disappointment that it was replaced by the mosquito? If memory serves the Beufighter was created to intercep bombers and to escort friendly bombers across the Chanel as well as for light bombing but it was so hopeless in both dogfighting and energy fighting it was imediatly replaced by the Mosquito in almost all it's jobs and by the mustang in long range Bomber escort.
Beautiful sounding engine. Can't get enough of that music. My friend's father flew Corsairs. He said the whistling noise is from high speed air flowing through the radiators.
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.
An awesome airplane!!! I really like the sound of those big radials pouring on the coal. I live about 350 miles from OSHKOSH Wisconsin and a number of planes fly over going to and from air show in the summer. You can always tell a radial and I stop to look at every one of them going over. In truth, I look at EVERY old plane going over. It's nice to see them in all their glory.
My Grandfather Richard Vargas was in bougainville......MAG 21........he worked on aircraft sheetmetal.....he told me the men could tell the difference between the planes by listening to the engines during dog fights...he didn't want to know the pilots name because they would die so quick.....we we to an airplane museum in Washington DC....he saw an SBD Dauntless hanging there and began to weep....I miss him
I think the F4U Corsair and the P51 Mustang represent the top of the food chain of propeller driven war planes. These were THE state of the art airplanes right before jets were developed and replaced them. In many ways, they were probably BETTER than the early jet fighters. They definitely helped to shorten up WW2, in my opinion.
@@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.
Yeah, I'm not knowledgeable about aircraft, but that bent wing style caught my eye straightaway. Did it improve airspeed and in-flight manoeuvreability ??
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.
As a child I read the memoirs of a chap Who Flew One of These in WWII. He Claimed the flight manual said that the glide-characteristics were SO poor, that if the engine stopped, you should bail-out (if high enough) ... OR' Whistle A Tune and Kiss Yer Ass Goodbye '! ... Because a 'dead-stick "landing Was very iffy.
Everything about this machine is beautiful to me. My grandfather was Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm stationed most of the second half of the war in Coimbatore, India in the fight against the Imperial Japanese. The Corsair was a favourite of his for many reasons and mine too.
This was my favorite WW2 plane when I was a kid... I was born Feb, 1948. Probably the sexy Gull wings and that big radial engine with the huge, 4 prop propeller caught my eye. Today, my favorite combat aircraft is a lot different.... my now favorite plane flies low and slow... she's the A-10 Warthog. I served on Swift Boats in the late '60's.... late August `68 to late August '69 and we could have used these kind of aircraft. Our support came via helicopters which were few and far between. I served out of Da Nang and Chu Lai Mark Bell PCf-69
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Me: *accidentally unplugs earphones*
Japanese Grandpa: Ah shit, here we go again.
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.
I work in a nursing home. One day I noticed a book in one of my patient's rooms, entitled F-4-U Corsair. I asked him if he was a Corsair pilot. He said "Yep, sure was." I asked him how many Japanese plans he shot down. He is 101 years old so his memory is not was it used to be. He said. "I don't remember any more but i know I shot a hell of a lot of them, most of them went down, a few didn't but I know I hit them." I have always liked this man, he is funny as hell. But after that conversation I had even more respect for that warrior.
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!
My grandfather loaded the .50's, the bombs, and the rockets on these in Korea on the USS Bonne Homme Richard. I showed this to him, and he had the biggest smile.
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!
weirdest thing about these warbirds is that they don't look old.
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.
It's beautiful to see people taking pride in keeping these wonderful birds flying I love them all
It takes a certain person to want to keep these things in the air.
Now this is how you do an Aviation video, pure aircraft sounds, no music, no voice overs. God Bless the Chance Vought F4U Corsair.
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.
Three iconic warplanes with sounds that distinguish them as effective machines of death:
the Stuka, the Corsair, and the Warthog.
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
Imagine being an American platoon pined down by a Japanese tank the hearing this above you 1:15
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
Corsair: whistles
Japanese soldier: say sike right now
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.
Corsair: **produces hellish noises**
Ju87: *hold my Jericho Trumpet*
Wait, actually, give me that. * takes back trumpet*
Sukacita Yeremia Good one 😂😂
H8dolf Schmitler press G to gas
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Po-2: *UNDETECTED UNEXPECTED*
A hot rod with wings and 50 cals. Built for war, but still a beautiful flying machine.
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.
1:12 imagine seeing that but it’s shooting
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
no talking. no stupid music. through the prop views. awesome video
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?
Whistling Death. Has been my favourite fighter of WW2 since I was a kid. Loved those bent wings.
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!
The Whistle was induction noise for the HUGE supercharger . Similar thing to the Vulcan's "Howl" . Corsairs were a VERY versatile Fighter/Ground attack machine .
All my friend has to do to stop his F4U from whistling is tape over the openings of his machine gun barrels.
Tape: no whistle.
No tape = whistle.
@@corycrowell3852 So, then wouldn't every US fighter make that whistling sound? I mean, they all had 50-cal Brownings, right?
@@corycrowell3852 Lol
@@kennethsizer6217 Well, shucks. I wish I WAS an aerodynamicist! Then we could talk fluid mechanics... how angle of attack affects laminar air flow... how a gull wing MAY produce unique vortices intersecting 1/2" holes?
But I'm not. 😎
The Corsair has been my favorite plane and the second has been the P-38 lighting. Before this Covid Pandemic hit, I had the opportunity to be a passenger in a 2 seater Japanese Zero. The Zero was restored by a friend, 15 years later and its airborne. It was an experience that I will not forget about.
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.
Coolest looking wing design of any WW2 era plane IMO
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
Just think... Somewhere in Japan, this was the last thing someone heard.
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
The Corsair, Mustang and the P38, three of my favorite WW2 planes.
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
My grandpa always liked these planes, they came through for the guys on the ground a lot
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.
I know most people get all weak kneed for the Mustang, but in my opinion, the Corsair was the most beautiful airplane ever built. I've only seen one in person, and that was years ago at the Scottsdale Airpark here in AZ. The pilot started her up with me standing maybe 200 yards away. No video can do that sound justice. You could almost feel the bass and the rumble in your bones.
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.
Proud to say that I had the privalage to restore aircraft for the Iwo Jima museum
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!!
Boy do I love that bird. The sound of that radial engine. The aesthetics of the set back cockpit and those gull wings. People disagree, but if I could own any WWII aircraft, it would be the Corsair.
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.
Who dislikes a video with only a plane flying.....no words? I have none either....how cool.
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?
Hands down my favorite WWII fighter. With that big radial and those bent wings it's just beautiful despite it's deadly purpose. I love the P51 too but the Corsair is just so beautiful to watch fly.
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!!!!
Love the Corsair. enjoyed watching Black Sheep Squadron on TV back in the day
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
Did you censor the word "death" in the thumbnail? Is that the point TH-cam has reached, so that the word death is enough for demonitization?
Yes, that's correct. We don't have a problem with the word, TH-cam does. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and after being live for a few weeks TH-cam 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 TH-cam there's not much more we can do. :-(
Damn that’s stupid!
Death and taxes are the two sure things in this world. Has TH-cam 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 TH-cam but we all die one day.
TH-cam 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 😎
@@HistAvFilmUnit
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.
Was the word “death” censored in the thumbnail?
Lol that’s great TH-cam
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
TH-cam is sanitizing itself. If it's not advertiser friendly it won't get recommended.
Friggin snowflakes
Fuckin snowflakes *
@@killermurderer2208 They really are ruining things
My father flew the F4U Corsair in Pacific Theatre, WWII, USMC Aviator.
Impressive
@@michaeldundee8300 : close ground support role primarily
Did he survive?
Semper -Fi
Congrats!
Sexiest war bird ever!! Fell in love with it when I was a kid watching Baa Baa Black Sheep!!
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.
To anyone that doesn’t know this airplane was nicknamed “Whistling Death “ by Japanese troops.
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
The whistling: 0:04, 1:14, 1:55, 2:28
Thanks for the great video!
Thank you
I could run this video on the big screen tv with surround sound and watch for hours.
If ancient man saw this machine he'd instantly know it was for killing.
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.
Air passing through the intake ducts at the leading edge is what generates the whistle. Specifically, the guide vanes that split and direct flow to the engine air intake, the oil coolers and intercoolers. It's not turbocharged, but it has a two-stage mechanical supercharger, with an intercooler between the stages.
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
The Corsair was the badass of the pacific during WWII. Long live Ba Ba Black Sheep!!
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.
@@lucientintenebris7331 The Hellcats had the most kills because they were chosen to be the standard fighter for the navy. The Corsair was originally slated to be their main fighter, but they had problems with them that weren't worked out until later, so they were used by land-based Marines mostly.
Great Corsair documentary: th-cam.com/video/gWIhcHbPdAE/w-d-xo.html
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.
I remember when I was maybe 10 years old (1956) I built a Revell model of this plane and proudly showed it to my Dad when I was finished. Dad was a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal Bouganville and Guam. He looked at it a few minutes then told me what a good job did on it. Then out of the blue he said, "Some of the few Jap(anese) prisoners we took were terribly afraid of this plane. They called it 'the Whistling Death'.."
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
I met Pappy Boyington when I was 15 at an Airforce airshow on Beale AFB in 1979. Great Marine and Hero to me!
Here he is making a guest appearance on the the TV show "Baa Baa Blacksheep". //th-cam.com/video/wKYcKwjBb7o/w-d-xo.html
that's awesome. thanks for sharing your story.
My Dad worked on these in the Korean War. The Marines still used them for close air support of their Marines in combat on the ground.
What a beautiful airplane! The Corsair and the Hellcat, flown by Navy and Marine pilots, spelled doom for Japanese pilots in the Pacific.
My understanding is the gull-shaped wings were necessary to provide sufficient ground/deck clearance for its huge prop.
Also heard “whistling” was attributed to airflow over the gun ports, same with P-51s.
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!
So have we all gotten so sensitive that the word Death has to be censored in the thumb nail for this video?
Please be aware that this is not a matter of HAFU being PC -- it's TH-cam. A previous version of this video used that word in the title of the video and at some point was basically 'shut down' by TH-cam's algorithms. :-(
Didn't notice
I thought it said The Whistling Dick
This beast could fly over in combat today and still make people sh*t themselves!!😳
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
Had the pleasure to up and touch a running example of this beautiful plane when I was a teen. Spitfire, Lancaster, B-17 and P-51 as well.
Magic!
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.
"We are poor little lambs
Who have lost our way
Baa baa baa"
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.
Stuka: I'm the scariest plane of WW2.
Corsair: hold my beer.
"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
Thank you, HAFU, for not fucking up this video with a music bed like so many other posters do.
+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
No dramatic affects are ever needed to showcase planes. Just Engine and and clear video and GTFO the way.
plenty of music in this vid thanks to the Pratt and Whitney Symphony Orchestra playing the 18th movement of the Wasp Symphony in F(4u) major!
Soooo cool old prop jobs making noise!! Man what a plane! I also like
The P-51 mustang!
My Pop was a member of the United States Army Air Corps. Pop thanks for everything!!
I miss you!
Fantastic camera work and production/editing. This airship kicked ass. Well done.
Thanks Pat -- we appreciate the fact that you noticed the camera work and production! :-)
I'm sure that whistling coupled with the sound of those M2's letting loose was quite a terrifying experience for enemy soldiers.
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.
Every time this thing flys by I don't know why I but it gives me goose bumps. It's intoxicating, I can't stop watching this video. I can only imagine what it's like being there in person.
The Corsair also had other nicknames. My Dad flew off of aircraft carriers in the South Pacific in WWII as a turret gunner on the TBM Avenger. Because the Corsair was very unforgiving in the hands of an inexperienced pilot during carrier landing operations, it developed the name "Ensign Eliminator". The corsair is however my favorite military aircraft of all time..
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!!)
I was lucky enough to see one of these at the air and space museum near Akron. It's my favorite aircraft now because of the history behind it
Great memories of this at wanaka watching with my dad whom is sadly no longer with us.
I'm so sorry about your dad.
Back then you had a warning whistle but now you don’t get any warning at all because the A-10 shoots faster than the speed of sound
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..
When I was in flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, USA (in 1966), there were quite a few Corsairs in preservative. I used to sit and look at them, because they are such beautiful birds. Later, I was flying an aircraft that made its own distinctive howl as it approached, the F-4 Phantom II. It, too, had bent wings.Both aircraft held speed records during their time. The Phantom's howl was associated with the variable inlet guide vanes on the engine compressor.
Thank you for the post!
I do not believe the corsair held the world speed record, I mean the Germans had the Me-163 and Me-262 around that time, and the Brits where almost done with the glostor meteor.
+Gavin Moody You're probably correct. I suppose there was some stipulation such as "piston-powered," when people would say the F4U was the fastest, or, perhaps it was a flat wrong statement. What we do know though, it was an effective fighter aircraft, and I still think it's a beautiful bird. :)
Have you ever seen the super corsair? That thing is amazing! (The fastest piston aircraft of the time was a German one, I think it was nick named the arrow or something it had one engine in the front, ang one in the rear as a pusher)
+Gavin Moody It was never used as an effective fighter like their little rocket plane and the ME 262 jet.
+Bob M P38, P47 and P51 were all fast rides. Which one was the fastest in which configuration is the question. In a dive, level flight, about X flight level.
stuka: 4 jear old pretending to be an air siren
corsair: hey look guys, i can whistle!
a10: BRRRRRRRRT!!!
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
What a beautiful bird! The F4U and the Mustang are my favorites. Oh and that P38 Lightning was awesome also.
The engine sounds so smooth from the cockpit camera.
That is surely a unique sound. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on your side) by the time it's closed enough distance for you to be able to hear that 'my front porch screen door is creakin'' noise...it's probably already released its ordnance.
Very beautiful aircraft with a unique appearance..
My uncle flew the Corsair in WW2. Buzzed the field one day when a parade was going on. The General picked himself off the ground and dusted off and sent him to the most dangerous place he could think of in the Pacific. As a Marine aviator, he survived the war and took down 6 enemy planes to boot. (never talked about that) Went on to the Korean war and flew unarmed Jets in a recon squadron. Got the DFC.
On a personal level, he married his training navigator instructor in flight school (a female Marine sergeant) and stayed married 50+ years. Kind of like the Top Gun movie plot.
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
What an absolute beauty… I used to have those toy Maisto planes and the Corsair was my favorite one to play with.
I once had the opportunity to visit Osh Kosh EAA fly in in 1979.
My favorite engine sounds came from the Corsairs that were flying there.
I'll never forget it!
Stuka still needs a siren to make the sound, but Corsair can do it on its own.
I've flown this awesome machine on several occasions. Flight Controls and engine incredibly responsive. Best rides ever!
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!
I met a French pilot of Corsair who during the Suez war in 1956 downed a Mig 15. That proves the plane quality.
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.
This video never gets old
75 years later and seeing that in a dive is still intimidating! Hell ya!
These and the P-51 helped our American WWII vets keep this great nation what it is today. I’m sure that the F-35 in all its greatness still salutes these old war birds when they meet on the runway out of GREAT respect.
P-47 too! don't underestimate the amount that the P-47 contributed to the war. some might say more than the Mustang, even...
In My humble opinion, the F-4U and the F-14 are two of the sexiest and bad ass aircraft ever flown followed very, very closely by The F-4 Phantom.
My dad flew one in the Pacific for the Marines. I now know what it looked like from his vantage point! Thanks!
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
Awesome video! As others have said, no crappy music in the background, just raw engine power screaming at you!
Great images of an iconic aircraft !
But please, why the "*" on the word 'death' ?
Is TH-cam censoring even ordinary words now ????
The unfortunate answer is 'Yes'. A proviso version of this video used that word in the title of the video, and after being live for a few weeks TH-cam effectively censored the video when the algorithms found the video and it's 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 someone at TH-cam there's not much more we can do. :-(
Yes they are: words like " brother " & "sister" are sure to be on the chopping block. As I watch these old war birds , think of grandpa's stories & what folks & life was about back then & wonder just what is going on in society today & what the hell went wrong.☹
Yeah, in this day and age of ‘offending’ people, man buns and gender unidentified (check your pants) we are but sheep being led to slaughter with all the manipulation we are delt with in this technological world of today.
God! (Also soon to be censored) its as if Prime As**...Minister Trudeau is getting his fairytale wishes come true! Lol.
Cheers to all the veterans who gave it their best to dealing with the evil empires who tried to bring DEATH to our past generations of decent peaceful people!
@@HistAvFilmUnit Much worse is coming, Sirs. Find Jesus and cling to Him while you still can.
@@HistAvFilmUnit does a transgender sensor things at TH-cam ?
The whistle preceeded the 50 cal. machine gun fire.
Edit: If you didn't jump for cover you'd probably be dead.
It's a .50 even if you jumped behind cover you'd probably still die.
@@anarchyandempires5452 Beat me to it.
@newagetojo a single round can penetrate 20mm of Armour steel, 100 rounds can eat right trough a reinforced 5 foot thick Concrete bunker, the .50 is the badest bit*h in the block.
Charlie Try 4X20mm cannon and 6x 50 cal That is what the Beaufighter Mk21 carried plus bombs of course and torpedoes and Rockets
@@jacktattis143 ..... Wasn't the beufighter such a disappointment that it was replaced by the mosquito? If memory serves the Beufighter was created to intercep bombers and to escort friendly bombers across the Chanel as well as for light bombing but it was so hopeless in both dogfighting and energy fighting it was imediatly replaced by the Mosquito in almost all it's jobs and by the mustang in long range Bomber escort.
That's why the imperial navy of Japan called this plane the "whistling death'"
Beautiful sounding engine. Can't get enough of that music. My friend's father flew Corsairs. He said the whistling noise is from high speed air flowing through the radiators.
The Corsair used an air cooled radial engine... no radiators.
Whoever is at the stick is good at energy management. Thumbs up!
Keith Skilling, ex RNZAF, Air New Zealand and Brietling Fighters. Very experienced warbird pilot.
Many an enemy soldier went out to the tune of the Whistling Death
A lot of Zekes did, too!
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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.
Now this is a great video to share. Power Grace and Beautifully flown.
I flew the Corsair II, but I’ve always dreamed of flying the Corsair I!!!
That whistle is highkey terrifying, this was the last thing loads of Japanese soldiers heard
And unfortunately this video can't convey what it would sound like in real life.
One of my favorite videos! Beautiful sound and footage
An awesome airplane!!! I really like the sound of those big radials pouring on the coal. I live about 350 miles from OSHKOSH Wisconsin and a number of planes fly over going to and from air show in the summer. You can always tell a radial and I stop to look at every one of them going over. In truth, I look at EVERY old plane going over. It's nice to see them in all their glory.
My Grandfather Richard Vargas was in bougainville......MAG 21........he worked on aircraft sheetmetal.....he told me the men could tell the difference between the planes by listening to the engines during dog fights...he didn't want to know the pilots name because they would die so quick.....we we to an airplane museum in Washington DC....he saw an SBD Dauntless hanging there and began to weep....I miss him
Great job at editing. The merging of ground and cockpit shots was only outdone by the pilot's handling of the aircraft! Great job on both accounts.
I used to not really care about the Corsair, but now it is absolutely one of my favorites. It was such a beast, and so pretty to look at.
A handsome brute rather'/!!!
3:39 just brutal analog mechanical horsepower.
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I love The flybys sounds
I think the F4U Corsair and the P51 Mustang represent the top of the food chain of propeller driven war planes. These were THE state of the art airplanes right before jets were developed and replaced them. In many ways, they were probably BETTER than the early jet fighters. They definitely helped to shorten up WW2, in my opinion.
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.
Was also known as the
“Bent Wing Bastard”
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.
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Great plane, great video! Goosebumps
Just something special about these aircraft, Mosquito, Mustang, Spitfire, Corsair and the rest.....could watch and listen to them all day long.
As a child I read the memoirs of a chap Who Flew One of These in WWII. He Claimed the flight manual said that the glide-characteristics were SO poor, that if the engine stopped, you should bail-out (if high enough) ... OR' Whistle A Tune and Kiss Yer Ass Goodbye '! ... Because a 'dead-stick "landing Was very iffy.
Look, Mustangs are my favorite just because of their range and maneuverability, but Corsairs were as badass as it got.
I love everything about this plane, the way that the Brits love the Spitfire. For me, it was watching Black Sheep Squadron!
I love the sound of a passing ww2 warbird. Something about the deep rumble of the engine. I could listen to it all day.
Everything about this machine is beautiful to me.
My grandfather was Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm stationed most of the second half of the war in Coimbatore, India in the fight against the Imperial Japanese.
The Corsair was a favourite of his for many reasons and mine too.
This was my favorite WW2 plane when I was a kid... I was born Feb, 1948. Probably the sexy Gull wings
and that big radial engine with the huge, 4 prop propeller caught my eye.
Today, my favorite combat aircraft is a lot different.... my now favorite plane flies low and slow... she's the
A-10 Warthog.
I served on Swift Boats in the late '60's.... late August `68 to late August '69 and we could have used these
kind of aircraft. Our support came via helicopters which were few and far between.
I served out of Da Nang and Chu Lai
Mark Bell PCf-69
God bless you, man!
Mark Bell My father was on PT boats in WWII. He spoke often of the swift boats you served on. He loved and respected you guys.
Pappy Boyington and his squadron kicked some serious tail with those birds.
No music, no narration, just pure P&W sound: thank you for this!
Our pleasure!