My grandfather was a corsair mechanic in WW2. Stationed in midway.

I just loved this video. I never served in the military. As a kid growing up, I suppose thanks to Black Sheep Squadron, I loved the Corsair. Built a model as a teen. I grew up in the Inland Empire close to Norton AFB where the first Corsair in this video landed. My first job was actually at the Norton AFB commisary. I remember one day while working at the commisary a F-4 Phantom came in to land, the commisary was next to the runway, so I had a great view. I also loved the Phantom. I will never forget seeing that plane come in and the parachute deploy with a large Marine Corps insignia on it. Awesome! I finally got to go up on warbird flight out of Palm Springs in a T-26 Trojan. Loved it, they are amazing out there.

My Dad loved the Corsair. He flew from 42 to 64 and of all the types, he loved the F4U the most. When he was with the Lexington (44 and 45) he said that when he was on CAP, once he trimmed "Ol' Hose Nose" up, he could fly lazy-8s by leaning from one side of the cockpit to the other. But she was a terribly unforgiving aircraft. The officer with whom he shared a berth came in a little too low and slow on day. The LSO gave him the power call and the pilot fire-walled the throttle. Unfortunately, the Corsair's engine torque (I think its called the P-Factor) got away from him and the bird rolled inverted and plunged into the Pacific. Neither the pilot nor the aircraft were ever seen again. Dad said that from that day onwards, he always came in high and fast and to hell with the LSO's complaints.

I would have to say the Corsair is my favorite fighter of WW2. Really great looking aircraft when the pilot did a wing over!!!

I remember watching Baa Baa Black Sheep as a kid! While I love the P51, the F4U is my favorite WW2 airplane!

Corsair and Thunderbolt together in the sky?! Very awesome and sweet! Even if from 1997, you definitely don't see two legends like that together very often.

I wasn't around during WWII, but I have been an avid aviation fan, & the corsair has always been my fav plane. The P51 is great but the F4U is magnificent! Thals for posting! Beautifully done! :-)))

Steve Hinton! Thanks for pointing this video out to me.

Took a screenshot of the Corsair in formation with the jug. That’s going on my screen saver!!

Well done and entertaining video and a fitting tribute to these fine machines and then men who flew them. Great job!

The Corsair is my favorite prop plane! I grew up watching Baa Baa Black Sheep and it's been my favorite ever since! It definitely has one of the most distinctive silhouette's.

This is one of my favourite WWII plane! Superb fighter! I used to fly in IL2 simulator, hope to enjoy also in DCS.

You know you're watching someone remarkable when preflighting and flying a ww2 Corsair is undertaken with the same regularity and familiarity that I apply to riding my bicycle !!

The Corsair is so beautiful.

I saw this video earlier, and this Corsair is a very rare F4U-1A. Many restored Corsairs are Goodyear FG-1D models. There are two known F4-U1 "Birdcage" Corsairs that were found, and possibly being restored. One is a late war Birdcage plane being restored in Australia. The other was an actual early war Birdcage Corsair that was found in Lake Michigan a short number of years ago. These will be nice to see restored, and flying. Warbird collector Kermit Weeks acquired a Chance Vought OS-2 Kingfisher, which is being restored in New Zealand. That will also be very interesting to see.

Love these airplanes used to work around them at Palomar airport in the 1980s in San Diego

Awesome Professionally done, Thank You for sharing.

One of my pilot dreams is to be checked out in the Corsair by this guy.

They've been around for 80 years now- you can't keep a good plane down! Wouldn't you love going back in time and seeing those pilots faces when told some of their planes will be flying 80 years later?!

My father was a Korean War aviation mechanic and stated that this one of the best aviation motors ever built in the world, basically paved the way for auto racing with methanol injection.

Capt. Ken Bennett, I wish you were here to see this aircraft with your squadron markings.

props to the engineers the fact that the plane still works after all these years

What a beautiful plane!

it's a different level, when we talk not about a war - but about engineering and quality, and flight related technical issues...

The Diamond on the tail means the plane was assigned to CV13 Franklin. Diamonds in the sky.

The theme music for this doc is absolutely terrifying. Like, horror movie-grade.

You can tell this is an old video. There’s a lot of flyable Corsairs today.

As a kid the Corsair was a WW2 plane that fascinated me. I was never particularly attracted to the Spitfire or Mustang or 109..it was the rugged planes that I liked: the Corsair, Thunderbolt, Typhoon, Dornier 335

My Dad flew this plane in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese. He was flying combat at 23yrs. old. Well decorated Marine in the VMF-23 SQUADRON

Truly great planes. Us limeys only got them for carrier use because the US navy didn't like them at all due to poor visibility on approach and numerous crashes. Soon as Royal Navy worked out the banked carrier landing approach all the planes and spares stopped being delivered and the US navy grabbed them So we had to make do with what we had left which was a shame as our home grown carrier fighters where bloody terrible even the Sea fire was just too flimsy for the job despite being good in the air Yeovil in Somerset England has the most complete genuine WW2 combat plane in the world every part even the paint layers not WW2 vintage have been removed, and what is she ? A F4U Corsair

Since I was a kid I wanted to emulate John Wayne doing a wing over and barrel roll. Finally had an opportunity to take the stick and try it in a T-6 Texan. Whoooa that was something. I actually lived a life emulating one of his other greatest movies.

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.

I work for a company in ROCKFORD, IL called Courtesy Aircraft ferrying warbirds (by broker aircraft) to people who buy or sell them. Flying the Corsair had been the highlight of my life next to the births of my kids. If a warbird with a P&W engine isn't leaking then there is a problem just like the UH-60's in the Army

In the 90's my Grandmother gave me the choice of to order this video for Christmas , or the Roaring Glory F6F Hellcat. After two days deciding, I chose the Hellcat video. I have put a lot of miles on that tape. The Hellcat, always counted by me, "amongst the more glamorous and nostalgic fighters of the 1940's" , yes that's right, the Hellcat. I love this Roaring Glory Corsair video too, and after all these years I finally got to see it!

A beautiful plane.

Thanks for this cool video.

The greatest plane ever made for the war! A truly great design!!!

Steve flew the Corsair past Mt Baden-Powell in this video. I used to live not far from there, down in Cajon Pass. Lol when I volunteered at POF I once washed this F4U, but by then she'd been repainted.

If you have ever looked at the center section (uncovered) of one of these engineering masterpieces, one cannot help but to marvel and realize they were all built by true engineers using slide rules. I’ll bet not 200 people worldwide know how to use one fully today. I stand in awe of these accomplishments. To appreciate the whole package, google radial engine manufacturing back then.

The Corsair was designed as a carrier aircraft for the Navy but was rejected as being too difficult to land due to its long nose. It was relegated to a land based plane. A quantity were given to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. They soon rectified the problem of landing the Corsair onto carriers by incorporating a left hand turn when approaching therefore the pilot could see the deck up to the last moment and then be guided by the batsman. They also sealed the cowling flaps on top of the engine so it didn't obstruct the pilots view. The raising of the seat was also a British idea as they added 7 inches plus a bubble canopy for more view. All of these incremental changes gave the pilot much more vision when landing and made it possible for the Corsair to be a carrier borne aircraft. One addition they also made which had an unexpected addition to landing was when they took off 8 inches from the wingtips. This was because British aircraft carriers had a smaller headroom in their hangers. In order to fit them they took off the 8 inches. This had the benefit of that at landing speeds the aircraft would 'float' when touching down! Many Americans couldn't believe that the Fleet Air Arm had managed to make the Corsair carrier borne but soon took to learning how to approach a carrier using the techniques created by the Fleet Air Arm and used them extensively to great effect. I believe the British also redesigned the landing gear for use on their carriers though I'm not sure? My father served in Fleet Air Arm as a Air Telegraphist (Radio) /Observer/Gunner.

My two favorite WWII Warbirds in the same video...awesome

Go to Chino California. Not only are the airshows incredible but even the boneyards are amazing. May third week

8:50 wow the cockpit gauges look sparse compared to later models though I kinda like it like that there's less info to take your attention away from flying

At this airshow a few years ago. Heritage flight F18G. F4u2. Skyhawk. And Tigercat.

Holy crap the planes of fame museum in chino, ive seen this plane fly in 2018

In the end you said fly one wish I could one of my favorite planes 👍😎✈️😁❤️

Muscle Car of Aviation!

Interestingly the Corsair was initially accepted by the marine corps as a a land-based fighter but rejected by the US Navy because it was too hard to land on aircraft carriers. It was then used by the Royal Navy who modified it slightly and used a different landing technique on aircraft carriers. Subsequently, having seen the successful Royal Navy use of the Corsair as a carrier based aircraft the US Navy then used it as a carrier borne aircraft.

Nice episode I had no idea this series existed.😃

Corsair, p-40 warhawk , b 17 - my favorite ww2 planes

ha ha two days to memorize the flight manual! Nowadays, elementary school teachers are told that having kids memorize the multiplication tables is a no no; we are told that rote learning is bad. Imagine WW 2 pilots slipping into the cockpit with flight manual in hand!

Such a beautiful aircraft

anyone else in here after buying the Milviz Corsair? :-D

Bump up the voice track level several notches, and you're golden. The C.C. was so bad, it was useless. 🤟🏽🐻

As many different planes that you are entrusted with, is there a certain amount of homework before strapping on each individual a/c? Small quirks that are indigenous to each machine that must be remembered? Thanks Steve. We all are there with you, vicariously putting the F4U through its paces, occasionally wiping the drool that inevitably shows up. Be safe up there.

22:42 yep, I’ll just go fly one.

Excellent

Wildcat, spitfire, dauntless-my favorite ww2 warbirds

My favorite War bird. Second is the JUG

They were quite hopeless as carrier born fighters to the extent the Americans stopped using them on ACC, they were that lethal. The British who were short of planes bought them up and modified several aspects including the landing gear. When the Americans saw how well they now performed they took back the improved design and started using them on ACC again.

The biggest problem to me is that the aircraft took too long to get from approval to build the first production planes in June 1941 until the first one rolled off the assembly line in June 1942. Whereas the F6F Hellcat was in production less than 4 months after the first prototype flew.

Great video

#1 NIP CLIPPER

Nice to be in a position to fly such aircraft, guy i know just having a Mustang rebuilt. And another filthy rich bloke regularly beats up our field in his Mustang. Yes i am jealous!

Hinton. Thank God for him

Thanks you just made onof the world's best fighter planes the hardest to fly!! I'm sure that all that shit you put us through was operable

That looks like Skipper from Planes.

That was awesome. Mess with the best and die like the rest!!

I've never done Oshkosh. But at Chino you can walk right up to the airplanes ✈it's the best

Why did one of their training mates have to bail out during practice flight?

If I won the lottery, I would spend the money on flight school, and then to have a replica of the F4U-4 Corsair built down to the rivet to fly every chance I got.

I was a little disappointed in this so-called Documentary. This is more of a flight check, and flight. A Documentary is the history of the subject. Design, manufacturing, upgrades, accomplishments.

Another thing about the Chino shows was you never knew what to expect. Ok here's 9 count them 9 P38 Lightnings. Flying fairly gently. Then suddenly there's an F18GS right in your face. Then Hinton goes through the wire in Glacier Girl. Then an F42E Phantom ....right at Mach. Best airshow s I've ever seen

We wouldn't have the warbirds if is wasn't for Steve

"Propwash junction to dusty"

good

Where's Homelander?

Cool,

Could of done a screaming fly-by it's sad its the last one

Me too@chino!

Can anybody answer me a question? How come the Jug was so big and ugly when it had the same engine, couldn't they have used the same cowling for that application?

29:43: skyraider not a Corsair

I've seen a lot of airshws, mostly in California and Nevada but you got to go to Chino California. It's incredible

He said the tail wheel was rigid but It looked like it was steering when he turned the plane?

found one comment interesting , at the beginning of the show the guy said that he believed this was the only flyable corsair in the USA ,,but if you go read the WIKi page list of surviving F4U corsairs you will find out that there are many dozens of them flyable and many are privately owned

Chino is coolest, even their junk laying around is neato

I would have a parachute

Hmmmm you left some things out but thanks. Nice work

Why is KZfaq so quiet \(°•°)\?? Blimmin stuff (/-_•)\

Little Rock air force base air show October this year wirts Jewelers is the best in the world in my opinion north little Rock Arkansas please bring a lot of these plans to our air show and get all kinds of war birds too

"surprisingly easy to land." wot

Weird looking cod

tom cruise should have this plane

Thanks Grandpa Beasley USA WORLD WAR 2 Army sniper against nazi members, from Grandson John Robert Bruffett Junior USA USA USA USA USA!

Right off the bat...wrong about why the wings were bent. Other U.S. fighters had propellers of similar size. The 90 degree angle off the fuselage was a primary consideration. Care to comment ??

I really would have liked to have been able to hear what the people in this video had to say, unfortunately the cheesy music was SO LOUD that it really made it difficult to hear it all, and I'm not going to keep backing up the video to try to catch it all. Somehow I managed to stay with this video all the way to the end, probably because I love Corsair's that much. This video would otherwise score an A or B, gets a D in my book, as the person adding the music was strictly Amateur Night.

Can't decide if id prefer to fly a Corsair, Mustang or Mosquito.

And if you pay a little bit extra they let you back into the shops.

got to be the worst music ever put on a video.

This outfit/complex put nine, I said nine P38s into the air at the same time. Then 12 Mustangs. If you're into warbirds you gotta go. And they open up the throttle.