Al Wade top notch aerobatic pilot, instructor, faithful husband, devoted father and a friend to so many, sadly passed away last weekend. He fought cancer all the way through. RIP
They all sound good, P&W's, RR's, Curtiss's, Allison's, Bristol's, ALL of 'em, and what kills me is the people who sit around and say one sounds better then the others, I can guarantee you not a single one of them could tell the difference between ANY of them if they were blindfolded when they flew over.
Awesome! My second favourite prop fighter next to the Sea Fury! Thank you for the extensive and extremely detailed information about this and all the aircraft in your videos!
Its a pleasure. This was just one of 3 validation displays that this pilot did in the Corsair. I will upload the others when I have time. I also have another feature on this Corsair to upload from a show that I attended yesterday which will include folded wing deployment.
What a profile! What an engine sound! Was there any prop plane back n the same day faster in a dive than a Corsair? (It seemed in this video that the plane almost got to that critical 'whistling death' sound speed. But I understand about not over-taxing old engines...just for a whistle!) Enjoyed this, thanks!
They were all pretty much limited in a dive to the low transonic speed range. The P-38, P-47 and to a lesser extent the P-51 struggled with it. One of the fastest diving fighters that didn't have that issue was the P-40 which could exceed WELL over 500 mph in a dive
All around the P47 was the fastest prop plane in a dive during the war, ALL of those planes suffered from "compressability" issues in high speed dives, none of them were immune from it, as a general rule diving from higher to lower altitudes the P47 was the one that could get from high up to down low faster then the other one's. P47M's in a 30° dive in War Emergency Power with water injection could close the gap on and destroy an ME262 that had a distance advantage and was at full throttle and fleeing in level flight, there's two documented accounts of it happening with probably a few more that weren't "documented".
Anyone ever wonder how it would have worked out if the P-51 hadn't been developed and the British seeing the Corsairs performance had purchased it as a land based fighter. Would have loved to have seen how it fared against German aircraft over Western Europe.
I wonder also. The corsair made a good go of the Zero, which was extremely light and agile so drawing a conclusion is dangerous. The spitfire variants came and went compared to the 109 and the 109 so that is a possible test comparison. Mind you, no-one wants to stress their antique aircraft for the purpose of being the best!! today. My two favourites are the corsair and the spitfire. The mustang had the great wing (laminar flow)and the merlin but its big deal was the long range fuel supply. I've heard the mustang was not better than the spitfire. Of all the greats, the corsair served into the Korean War, I think because that massive engine could haul more ordinance, and the Yanks eventually learned how to land the corsair on carriers. Love them all. BTW … the Brits did have some corsairs and showed the Yanks how to land them on carriers.
@@JDS11ify The laminar flow wing of the P51 didn't work "as advertised" not only did NACA tests show that they also found out from the tests that ANY imperfections in it from manufacturing to even bug strikes negated what little advantage it did provide. The F4F Wildcat already had done a good job against the Zero before the Corsair came online, despite the misinformation spread about that aircraft it actually had an almost 5 to 1 kill ratio against the Zero, and it was the one that took most of the hot shot Japanese aces out early on so that by the time the Corsair and the Hellcat came online the Zero's were mostly being flown by new inexperienced Japanese pilots, comparing the kill ratio's of the Hellcat and Corsair against the Wildcat is unfair because the Wildcat had already dealt with the experienced Japanese aces early on, that's something no one ever factors in, the fact is the Zero wasn't a very good combat aircraft, it's "fearsome reputation" is based mostly it's record early on against Chinese biplanes and the US Navy's first experiences in aerial combat, after Navy pilots got over the initial shock of combat they quickly turned the tables against the Zero, there's a Japanese ace interviewed that says himself that the Zero wasn't a good combat platform, he points out that the designers were of the mistaken belief, just like most people are, that the best combat plane would be an aerobatic plane with guns on it, it was actually a highly flawed way of thinking on their part, survivability is far more important than the designers of the Zero and most think it is.
Yes, I realize the mustang wing was not actually laminar flow but a step in the right direction. Thanks, I has since seen articles describing what a laminar flow aircraft is.
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Al Wade top notch aerobatic pilot, instructor, faithful husband, devoted father and a friend to so many, sadly passed away last weekend. He fought cancer all the way through. RIP
It is a wonderful engine noise on those ww2 airplanes. I can only imagine how it sounds with about ten in a group, at the same time!
Here's 11 together in Michigan in 2019. ruclips.net/video/U9zPKQilC-s/видео.html
They all sound good, P&W's, RR's, Curtiss's, Allison's, Bristol's, ALL of 'em, and what kills me is the people who sit around and say one sounds better then the others, I can guarantee you not a single one of them could tell the difference between ANY of them if they were blindfolded when they flew over.
The RNZAF flew the Corsair in the Pacific theatre. Lucky buggers!😎🇦🇺
Awesome! My second favourite prop fighter next to the Sea Fury!
Thank you for the extensive and extremely detailed information about this and all the aircraft in your videos!
Its a pleasure. This was just one of 3 validation displays that this pilot did in the Corsair. I will upload the others when I have time. I also have another feature on this Corsair to upload from a show that I attended yesterday which will include folded wing deployment.
Great display as always see you soon duxford -The Horsemen
Looking forward to you 'riding the clouds in'!
High Flight haha many thanks 😆
Wow er ? nope just wow with knobs on what a beauty many thanks for this
My pleasure. More of this to come after the weekend!
Matthew Rowe - you sum up exactly what I think about the Corsair but in a far more poetic way!
Nothing like a radial engine roar modern planes ain't got it
What a profile! What an engine sound! Was there any prop plane back n the same day faster in a dive than a Corsair? (It seemed in this video that the plane almost got to that critical 'whistling death' sound speed. But I understand about not over-taxing old engines...just for a whistle!) Enjoyed this, thanks!
They were all pretty much limited in a dive to the low transonic speed range. The P-38, P-47 and to a lesser extent the P-51 struggled with it. One of the fastest diving fighters that didn't have that issue was the P-40 which could exceed WELL over 500 mph in a dive
All around the P47 was the fastest prop plane in a dive during the war, ALL of those planes suffered from "compressability" issues in high speed dives, none of them were immune from it, as a general rule diving from higher to lower altitudes the P47 was the one that could get from high up to down low faster then the other one's.
P47M's in a 30° dive in War Emergency Power with water injection could close the gap on and destroy an ME262 that had a distance advantage and was at full throttle and fleeing in level flight, there's two documented accounts of it happening with probably a few more that weren't "documented".
Anyone ever wonder how it would have worked out if the P-51 hadn't been developed and the British seeing the Corsairs performance had purchased it as a land based fighter. Would have loved to have seen how it fared against German aircraft over Western Europe.
I wonder also. The corsair made a good go of the Zero, which was extremely light and agile so drawing a conclusion is dangerous. The spitfire variants came and went compared to the 109 and the 109 so that is a possible test comparison. Mind you, no-one wants to stress their antique aircraft for the purpose of being the best!! today. My two favourites are the corsair and the spitfire. The mustang had the great wing (laminar flow)and the merlin but its big deal was the long range fuel supply. I've heard the mustang was not better than the spitfire. Of all the greats, the corsair served into the Korean War, I think because that massive engine could haul more ordinance, and the Yanks eventually learned how to land the corsair on carriers. Love them all. BTW … the Brits did have some corsairs and showed the Yanks how to land them on carriers.
The Royal Navy flew the Corsair in the European theatre. They scored plenty of kills against the Me 109 and FW 190.
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The laminar flow wing of the P51 didn't work "as advertised" not only did NACA tests show that they also found out from the tests that ANY imperfections in it from manufacturing to even bug strikes negated what little advantage it did provide.
The F4F Wildcat already had done a good job against the Zero before the Corsair came online, despite the misinformation spread about that aircraft it actually had an almost 5 to 1 kill ratio against the Zero, and it was the one that took most of the hot shot Japanese aces out early on so that by the time the Corsair and the Hellcat came online the Zero's were mostly being flown by new inexperienced Japanese pilots, comparing the kill ratio's of the Hellcat and Corsair against the Wildcat is unfair because the Wildcat had already dealt with the experienced Japanese aces early on, that's something no one ever factors in, the fact is the Zero wasn't a very good combat aircraft, it's "fearsome reputation" is based mostly it's record early on against Chinese biplanes and the US Navy's first experiences in aerial combat, after Navy pilots got over the initial shock of combat they quickly turned the tables against the Zero, there's a Japanese ace interviewed that says himself that the Zero wasn't a good combat platform, he points out that the designers were of the mistaken belief, just like most people are, that the best combat plane would be an aerobatic plane with guns on it, it was actually a highly flawed way of thinking on their part, survivability is far more important than the designers of the Zero and most think it is.
Yes, I realize the mustang wing was not actually laminar flow but a step in the right direction. Thanks, I has since seen articles describing what a laminar flow aircraft is.