Restored Chance-Vought F4U-5NL Corsair 'Devotion' Takes Flight! | Historic Aircraft Display
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- Join us in this captivating video as we bring you an up-close look at the remarkable Chance-Vought F4U-5NL Corsair “Devotion.” Witness the awe-inspiring sequence of events as this historic aircraft roars to life, unfolds its wings, takes to the skies, performs a stunning aerial display, and gracefully lands back on the runway.
What sets this Corsair apart is its verifiable and storied history. Known by its serial number #124541, this aircraft's journey is meticulously documented through its "History Card" (Curriculum Vitae or CV), a rare and precious record often lost for many Navy and Marine aircraft.
According to its history card, #124541 served with the renowned “VMF-513” squadron over Korea, famously dubbed the “Flying Nightmares.” This history was later shared with MaxAlpha Aviation by the son of former operational pilot Al Sadeski.
After spending 25 years in an Argentinian museum, #124541 was sold in 1991 and transported to Le Castellet, France, in 1994, where it underwent a meticulous restoration. This restoration transformed the F4U-5 into an F4U-7 to represent an aircraft of the French Navy, the Aéronavale. Renamed F-AZYS and flown by former Aéronavale Corsair pilot Ramon Josa, the aircraft became a popular sight at various airshows.
In December 2009, MaxAlpha Aviation GmbH acquired F-AZYS, and on December 2nd, Ramon Josa piloted it to its new home at Bremgarten (EDTG). The aircraft, now featuring the nose art “Cielito,” participated in many events, including the prestigious “Flying Legends” airshow in Duxford. Discovering its unique history, MeierMotors restored it to its original F4U-5 condition and repainted it in its authentic colors, with the registration D-FCOR.
In November 2023, Flying Legends GmbH added this extraordinary Corsair to their collection. Now stationed at Siegerland Airport, the D-FCOR continues to be a cherished part of the Flying Legends fleet.
Don't miss this thrilling video showcasing the beauty, power, and rich history of the F4U-5NL Corsair “Devotion.” Like, comment, and subscribe for more incredible aviation content!
0:00 Engine Start
1:11 Unfolding Wings
2:01 Takeoff
2:26 Airshow Display
7:00 landing on grass - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
This has been and will always be my favorite aircraft. Jets are cool, but this is history and simply beautiful.
I prefer the Bf109
@@Warbirds Well, I prefer the 190, so there! Enjoyed the vid.
My Dad (RIP) met Pappy Boyington at an airshow at Glenview Naval Air Station in the ‘80’s. Boyington was his hero. My Dad, a Navy pilot, was transitioning into the Corsair from the trainers in Texas, getting ready for the invasion of Japan. They told him that the odds of surviving the invasion as a pilot were not good. Then Harry dropped the bomb.
My Dad told him he was his hero, and Pappy put his arm around my Dad for a pic and told my Dad ‘ You’re the hero’. What a class act. My Dad always said he wanted to get into the Corsair in bad way. What an aircraft!
Thanks for your story
The F-4U & the P-38 were my favorite war birds....Beautiful plane...!
Plus the heavy weight champ P 47.👍🏻🇺🇸
When it made its initial low-level pass, for a brief instant I was taken back in time to when I was a kid and would watch Black Sheep Squadron on Saturday mornings with Robert Conrad as Pappy Boyington. The theme music was in my head.
It was a beautiful bird to watch then, and just as magnificent, or maybe even more so, now. There's one hanging from the ceiling in the Museum of the Marine Corp at Quantico. You don't appreciate its size until you lay eyes on it. Great, great bird.
Same here mate
I made a model of a F4U-5 years ago. Then I got the chance to sit in one at Oshkosh. Unforgettable. Those things were superprops
I didn’t sit in but would be awesome or course
Amazing work to get her back in the air. Thank you for saving a beautiful aircraft...
The best Navy fighter flown by Marines too. It is simply beautiful to watch in flight.
Ty
When I was a kid, circa 1950, I would watch the Corsair's practice dive bombing a barge on the horizon on the western end of Lake Erie. Those Corsair's were out of the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station. Memories.
Thanks for the Story. Enjoyed
One of the prettiest flying machines ever made! What a smooth landing too!
Thank you ! Hope you subscribed
Ever since I was a kid, this airplane has always been one of the coolest looking ones to me, one of my absolute favorites. Beautiful airplane, very nice, thanks for sharing.
Thanks liking this warbird was also my first model which I built from revell
@@Warbirds I built one also. Model, that is. Way back when.
@@BruceMusto yes when i watched this TV Series Black Sheep Squadron
What a beauty and beast. Great pilot.
He will like your comment
I remember this magnificent airplane back in 1945, when I was 14 years old. It was simply wonderful to see my favorite airplane fly again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You made me very happy.
Im glad I made you happy
When I was a boy my uncle piloted the F4 phantom in Vietnam, I was in awe, I'm bias but this airplane was a great design and one of our great assets. God bless the United States of America🇺🇸
I watched this tv series with when I was a child
You playing DCS yet? F-4E came out a month ago and it is wonderful.
Was going to mention the dcs sim. If your uncle is still with us you should definitely at least show him some of the f4 content on TH-cam
The Corsair is my all-time favorite prop-driven airplane and the F-4 Phantom is my all-time favorite fighter jet.
Please forward my thanks to your uncle for his service.
Now that is a fighter. Absolutely love the color. She is a beaut. Thanks for the video
Thanks liking
Absolutely gorgeous. My all time favorite.
Glad you enjoyed
I’ve always loved the deep-throaty growl WWII planes made, especially the B-17 and the Corsair.
Living near an airport, and when I hear that sound, I stop whatever I’m doing to run outside and look for the plane, and am always rewarded with a WWII plane. They bring a smile to my face and a prayer of thanks to all members of our military, especially for the greatest generation and my dad who served in the Navy in the pacific during that time.
Wow lucky guy. Here at my house you won’t hear and see many warbirds passing . But I visit them
Amazing bird👍🏻🙂
Yes i like it
Flies like a dream.
First class, well done!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome restoration, thank you to everyone who made this happen for a true warrior of the skies. Lovely flight maneuvers.
What a beautiful sounding bird! So happy y’all put her back in line to be useful
Glad you like it
Best Show Act on Sunday was the Corsair F4U & Mustang P51 - Great 👌🤠 thanx for the Team 🍻 Top 🤩💪and many thanks !!! for this Video ☝️🌞
Glad you enjoyed
WONDERFUL video, with soundtrack provided by the Subject.
Kudos to you!!
Enjoyed
man, the size of these things are cool. you some times just never expect how big they are when you see old footage or something till someone is standing next to them. im currently watching an older man who made a mini one of these and he's gotten to the point of taxing down the runway. soon to be on first flight.
Yes this bird is so huge
Dyno don...I follow him too...beautiful little bird he has built for sure
Man, cannon equipped. Pretty rare even something so rare already.
Thank you so much from Amsterdam. What a beast!
Greetings and ty from Germany
Magnificence.
Ty❤
For a while I thought I was watching an RC plane with how it was leaving a trail of smoke, but no mistaking it for an RC with how it flew. I have a small one, 60" or so span with a 3 cylinder Radial in it, has yet to fly, but looks great. Modeled after the first generation F4U with 3 blade prop and 3 color paint scheme.
It’s the real deal thanks liking
More than any other WW2 fighter the F4U Corsair looks like it wants to kill somebody.
So mean yes
Didn't want too it had too.
It was definitely built to kill the enemy!
Fantastic.
Ty
Sweet display, no music, just plane goodness
Glad you liked it.
I love the Corsair! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Work of art
Thank you 🙏
Wonderful engineering and design.
Ty
It got the job done
which job ?
What an absolutely beautiful, graceful, amazing piece of history. Thanks for the video. 😎
glad you enjoyed
❤ BEAUTIFUL
Ty
Nothing tops that! That old girl can really sing.
Oh yes
The F4U Phantom is the most valuable of all remaining WW2 aircraft.
Puuurfection
Glad you liked
geiles Viedo! Vielen Dank! Es ist so viele Jahre her, aber wer den Sound der F4U gehört und das ausfahren der Flügel mal live aus der nächsten Nähe erleben durfte kann mir meine Freude nachvollziehen ... einfach nur geil!
Warst du auch vor Ort ?
@@Warbirds nein leider nicht
@@aileron5655 Ich poste die nächste Zeit noch mehr Videos vom Event. Hab auch die P-51 und die Catalina
Beautiful bird
Ty
Awesome ! The sound of those engines was panic button to the enemy troops.
Of course.
The F4U Corsair is my absolute favorite. I was friends with Red West and he would tell me stories about these birds when he was in Black Sheep squadron.
Maybe you can share here
@@Warbirds Red lived in Bartlett Tn where I’m from and he would come by the lumber yard where I worked and he would tell me about the corsairs on the set and that basically when you would see the planes take a hit it was basically one of 3 or 4 stock footage of the same piece of painted scrap metal taking real hits in a nearby field. He also mentioned something about the real Pappy did not care to much for Robert Conrad. We would basically chat every now and then. This would be around the same time he was filming Road House.
Something just popped in my head that Red said. Black Sheep was a production he called SPAM CAN production. About 80% of Black Sheep was canned footage. Not just the old aerial combat footage but take offs, landings, when something on a plane blows up, the bullet hits. Ever notice that sometimes a scene shows sun up or sunset and all of the sudden it's high noon in the next frame. Yep! All canned footage. I think it was Red that got me on the habit of spotting planes in a TV show or movie and it's an entirely different aircraft. Still goes on to this day. For example, World War Z, Brad Pitt goes from flying on a C-130 to the AN-12 Cub. It switches throughout the entire movie. I keep wondering if they intend it as a joke or they really think we are that stupid not to notice.
@@johnklatt3522 Now this did not come from Red but another conversation I had who knew about the actual guns firing. These scenes were canned as well and was nothing more than propane firing from a tube on mocked up wing or in the zeroes case a mock up cockpit with the actor inside. Propane through a tube. I did wonder if there was actual feed back to the stick when firing the guns. I could understand with the Zeroes because 2 of the machine guns were actually right in front of the pilots face. The guns and/or cannons were way out on the wing. Why would the stick shake?
@@MATTNMEMPHIS As i saw this TV Series i was a kid an completely fascinated because it was kinda new for me to see those american Productions. I saw it even before i saw the A-Team oder MacGyver
Best prop fighter ever made!
I tell you what would be neet as hell, seeing the Corsair land on one of our modern carriers. The flight deck crew would go freeking nuts. You can't beat NavAir !!!
wow thats would be project
Wonderful🥰♥superb plane
Thanks watching
Hands down, my favorite war bird of all time.
Glad you liked
Nothing sounds as pleasing as a purring R-2800
Double Wasp
Yes, a weapon of a terrible war, but a beautiful flying machine
Awesome 😎
I love the Corsair, I have the RC and other war birds, the Corsair is the hardest one too fly, but an amazing plane.
That’s the real deal . Toys for the rich
When I see that corsair coming straight at you I think to myself that's the last thing a lot of Japanese pilots ever saw in this world
Was ein großartiges Flugzeug
Wieder sehr gut gefilmt viel besser als meine Handy Videos 😅
War dieses Jahr auch selber wieder dabei absolut mega coole airshow
Danke. Ja mit dem Handy geht sowas nicht . Ich war leider nur einen Tag dabei
Awesome war bird scene shattered by wandering Cessna...
true
The sheer size of the prop!
Right in front of it it’s even bigger
One of the very best American war birds of WW2 without a doubt.
True
👍🏻
Devotion is a good book
And good movie
Fantastic bird - great to see her flying again 😋
On a side note, is that a FWP149 @7:54 ?
Yes this Fw149 made me very nervous when filming the approach. Decided to be safe than sorry but messed up the landing
Very best, as fastest, of the Corsair’s. 470mph at altitude.
Bellissimo aereo, fascino d'altri tempi!
Gracie
DAYUM!!! that’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout!!!! Thanks!!!
@@seldomseensavage3459 youre welcome
1:30 Dude finds out pitot tubes are heated 😂. Anyway, amazing beautiful bird, piece of art!!
😜
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
"If it looks right, it is right.”
Oh yes
👍
👉
Flying Leathernecks. Twin wasp. American muscle.
American muscle
I remember when i first took off in a f4u in war thunder. I made the mistake of retraction the flaps at the same time as my landing gear like many real life first time pilots and stalled it into the end of the runway.
Never played it yet . Is it any good ?
note that this beautiful gal DOES NOT whistle as she flies by .... the tips of the guns might be covered up or the guns might be fake and just there for show .... but the corsair whistle is a beautiful sound if you ever get to hear it !!!!!!
The owner also got a P-51 with open gun ports. I think he will fix that issue 😎
@@Warbirds we neeeeeed to hear the whistle man !!!!!!
Whiskey Foxtrot! Flying Nightmares forever. But it's not a real Dash 5 [N] without the starboard radome. I know, I know, it causes asymmetric drag, but it would be so much more authentic.
Gelnhausen Kerb ❤
ja warst Du da ?
@@Warbirds Eine tolle Veranstaltung...kommen noch Videos von der Mustang und den Thunder Yaks?
@@florianpusch ja
It was the only propeller driven aircraft to shoot down a a jet MiG in Korea
Yes I saw the movie
I think I heard the whistle.
Which minute ?
What an amazing work of art. It's like a vintage race car with a 10ft long hood. Sexy Beast!
Oh yes ! Ty liking
There probably aren't many pilots left who can pilot these machines. Can you please tell me if they are passing on their skills to younger generations of pilots to keep this legacy alive?
I only know few young pilots that are learning to fly those machines .
@@Warbirds Well, that's good too. Thanks to channels like yours, I hope there will be more of them. ❤🛩
the sound of round
True
When in good hands, he was Zero's executioner
This one was a war survivor
Whistling death.
yes !
Can anyone tell me the bureau number of this particular Corsair?
D-FCOR
That's not the bureau number, it's the registration.
The reason l ask is because my dad may have flown it. He flew 14 different 5Ns beginning with 121915 to 124714. All of VC3 squadron USS Boxer. I believe one at least survives. 124486 in Springfield, Ohio at the Air Combat. Museum. Thanks for any replies.
Serial no. is 124541.
Thanks je9. Will check his flight log.
The only good thing about WW2 was the beautiful airframes and engineering.
True
Why is this F4U such a dark colour scheme ??
It’s a night fighter
Aerofly FS sim if you wanna fly one but can’t afford the real thing😊
LOL no MsFs2020
Too bad the movie stunk.
Still getting better
With the UV what it is today we cannot believe you painted such a sweet bird the satin black Trendy look ..Nasty as all hell tasteless & trendy
Like an AMG
War is an awful thing, but my God, it spawned some magnificent airplanes.
So great ones
Hubbba hubbba
LOL