F4U-5 Corsair

F4U-1D Corsair

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[oriskany]

The "computer" on board this craft was powered by brains, blood and guts!

[DANIAC262]

cuz its better to just hear that radial roar

[kirkconway]

Yea,,,,, The Corsair was a real hot rod of an airplane.

Power, Speed, Handling, Firepower,,,

It Had It All.!!!!!

[wikeroy]

@1969captainron

I dont agree. Its from the TV series "Blacksheep Squadron".

[texasccl2]

no less than awesome

[ALLERTORLOVER69]

did the marines have b25s in ww2?

[ATNAVIATOR]

@F22RaptorSquadron They didn't waste their whole supply but they did not have that much ammo hence only enough for maybe two to three aircraft kills. It all depended on the pilot that was doin the aiming.

[ATNAVIATOR]

@SRTST51 Depends on which Fw-190 your talking about. The Fw-190D was armed with twin MG-17 machine guns in the cowling and an MG-151/20 cannon in each wing root.

[ATNAVIATOR]

The F4U4 can out turn anything with the exception of brewsters, A6Ms(Zero or zeek), I16s and IL2s to name a few. A Spitfire could out turn the F4U but if flown correctly by the F4U pilot, the spit can be overtaken as well. However, ALL OF THE AIRCARAFT that could out turn the F4U had something in common. They didn't have much power to work with and the F4U could do a quick chandel to get them off its six. F4U pilots didnt have to worry about fighting a spit as they were British allie aircraft.

[SRTST51]

@F22RaptorSquadron Are you sure your information is correct? The BF-109 had a hard time against the "Jug" but the FW-190 used four cannons, not machine guns. Chuck Yeager published the story about how he was shot down AND how formidable the FW-190's armament was. He said "A fighter pilot never want's to be in the position to have to decide when to bail out, for me I had no choice, there was no plane left to bail out of." This was in reference to taking on 4 FW-190's head on.

[RUSeriousnow]

@usselliot76 The book I bought at the Pima Air Museum in Arizona, (I rechecked it to be sure) claims it was Navy LT. Ira Kepford, who flew his Corsair against the North Korean Mig 15 fighters, and killed 5 in one battle. So what I wrote is directly from that book, and possibly THEY, may have erroneously published the wrong information. However, no matter WHO it was, the Corsair F-4U, did indeed fight against Jet fighters, and Did indeed whup some butt! :)

[ztwan19]

@4thstooge man thats solid im very lucky where i live Fairfield, CT and two towns over is Stratford where the Vought factory is and where these planes were made and every year they have what they call Corsairs over Connecticut and they bring in a few flying corsairs ranging from f4u-1A models to f4u-4 no -5s have shown yet. They also bring in other warbirds like the b-25 Mitchell and so on. The best is when the 4 corsairs last year all lined up and flew formation over Sikorsky airport.