F4u Corsair Carrier Flying A Royal Navy 1946

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[@rickklein7792]

My dad was on a CVE during WW2. CVE-1 USS Long Island 42-46. Lot of carrier landings and launches.

[@nole8923]

Love the Brits. They showed us how to land a Corsair on a carrier. The hellcat was a good plane and could hold its own against a zero, but the Corsair was an absolute zero killer. The Japanese feared and hated the Corsair.

[@patrickhale424]

Yep, they nicknamed it "whistling death" 👍👍

[@macgyver5108]

I find it odd how people look strictly at the "numbers" of how many planes the Hellcat vs the Corsair shot down and based of that they'll claim the Hellcat was the "better fighter"... But they forget to take into account the Japanese Zeroes _MAIN_ target was the CARRIER groups, _not_ the land base strips where they'd run into the Corsairs. So the Hellcats obviously had a much more _target rich_ environment and for a longer duration during the war!

[@macnutz4206]

It is not too surprising that the RN figured out how to land the Corsair on a flat top, as the Spitfire also had bad forward vision on the ground, so they had been working on that issue for a while before they got the corsair.

[@KB4QAA]

@Incog Nito 1. The USN was already using a circular approach. Hasn't changed in 100 years. The Brits may have used a tighter approach with the F4U to maintain visibility. 2. The USN fleet was also concerned about logistic problems in stocking parts for the F4U aboard ship. This was another reason for delaying them. 3. The USN was working on improving the landing gear hydraulics and raised tail gear. Still F4U's DID operate occasionally in the Pacific. The Brits were NOT the miracle saviors of the F4U though they certainly contributed to improvements.

[@thepianoman1010]

My dear Dad was a rating on HMS Speaker from 1942 'til 1945 and that ship carried Corsairs, Hellcats and the biplanes used to attack submarines (forget the name) ... I learned to fly in 1975 and took Dad up .. showed him how to fly straight and level and how to follow the main road back to the airport ... he loved it!

[@aaronseet2738]

Always enjoyable to hear British radio chatter.

[@elliotdryden7560]

26:48 "Finally, there is the Island...avoid this at all costs". Good advice, that.

[@thurbine2411]

Must have been some advanced ai Corsair that managed to fly the whole Royal Navy in 1946

[@JohnCoffins]

That's awesome how they drift the plane in before landing so they can actually see the damn runway.

[@5stardave]

to see the LSO or batsman.

[@melendreras78]

Just acquired a FMS Corsair 800mm RC plane. Watching this video as a reference!

[@BruceTGriffiths]

I have had the FMS1700 for some time and love it. Some tweaking is needed to bring it in to its own but truly a great model and undersung.

[@melendreras78]

@@BruceTGriffiths Oh wow. You got the big one. Sweet!

[@brucemacallan6831]

A perfect book to compliment this video of British Corsairs is 'Carrier Pilot' by Norman hanson.

[@jameswebb4593]

Absolutely agree, bought the book over thirty years ago. He never considered landing a Corsair a piece of cake, in fact he thought it bloody dangerous. A fact realized by the Americans who only flew it off carriers a year after the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm had developed the landing technique.

[@Pitcairn2]

Great book , very well written.

[@khaccanhle1930]

Actually, this is helpful for my flight sim carrier landings in the corsair. I try to use the correct flight pattern.

[@yeyonge]

What sim do you play?

[@genearbogast7525]

Excellent video I Am Ready !!

[@nickpaine]

It's a good thing the deck crews had that badminton net up.

[@petewood2350]

Yes but one unsports man like bugger had both bats.

[@UnclePutte]

Again, this reminds me that LSOs should be regularily hired for fashion shows.

[@rsattahip]

The two best fighter planes of the War were the Mustang and the Corsair. The British had to put a decent engine in the Mustang to bring out its potential and they had to teach us how to fly the Corsair. The American Navy had decided it was not suitable for carrier use because of the restricted front vision. Essentially they were both British-American combined efforts.

[@Loiyaboy]

Facts.

[@karlt8233]

The standard landing pattern of the time was a straight in approach from the fantail of the carrier, this made glideslope easier to maintain. The Brits developed the turn approach from port side into the landing approach specifically for the F4U because in a standard approach the pilot could not see the carrier over the long front end. In the curved approach the pilot could see the deck and LSO until the very last minuite before landing.

[@bingchandler5145]

@@karlt8233 I don't think it was specifically developed for the Corsair, they'd already used the curved approach for the Seafire which had a similar problem.

[@oesau]

The Corsair had a tenancy to bounce when hitting the deck which was one of the prime reasons the USN didn't accept it (initially). The landing gear oleos would compress, and then extend quickly back to full travel, bouncing the fighter into the air again (and missing the hook)

[@xROJANBOx]

Ummmm no, the Spitfire and BF109 will have a few things to say about that

[@jontillo9979]

THE ANGLED FLIGHT DECK AND MEATBALL ARE BOTH BRITISH INNOVATIONS. THEIR SKILL AND COMPETENCE ARE ALWAYS FIRST RATE.

[@gregmctevia5087]

Don't forget the steam catapult. That's RN as well.

[@mookie2637]

We are quite proud of the whole capital letter thing too.

[@garyhewitt489]

Don't forget the ski jump

[@MarkAShaw64]

Imagine doing that in a storm.

[@aaronseet2738]

A very real danger to this very day.

[@AXL4LIFE229]

That's it , I'm trusting Wilson for now on.. DCS here I come..

[@saulgardiner1]

Anyone know if the shots of the ground based training (ADDL's) was at RNAS Easthaven (HMS Peewit) ?

[@weltensegLA]

anyone one know what deck-windspeed they adjusted the carrier speed to? example: were they going for 20knots deck wind by going 10knots into 10 knots wind?

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Deck landings are not difficult or dangerous....... Well, they would be dangerous if I were doing them.

[@brucemacallan6831]

Wonder if that was Eric Brown deck landing the Mosquito and the vampire?

[@nolhrt]

Indeed it was

[@martentrudeau6948]

I though the same, those landings were so smooth it has to be Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown.

[@thosefabulouschartierboys6987]

Good-O film!

[@derrickhogue1868]

Bloody Hell. Let the screaming and reaming commence 😀. Right listen up. Nice video. Beautiful airplane. This must have been a movie produced RN training film.

[@loddude5706]

He must have paid off that bent prop by now, even on Royal Navy pay.

[@loddude5706]

@ianh - 'Shock'ingly so! (Ouch : )

[@gigiw.7650]

Lod dude Oops! 🤦‍♀️

[@evanwain1471]

The Batsman says "Bloody Fool" lol

[@ashsundar6117]

Bloody Wilson!!!

[@clayz1]

2:50 So this us Sublieutenant Snafu.

[@michaelgodbee1456]

Did those nets really work

[@garyhewitt489]

He signals "lower flaps". I think, he thinks I'm doing good, he's clapping me look!

[@westlock]

That is the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Campania_(D48) .

[@arthurlewis9193]

Bloody Wilson!

[@mookie2637]

Not many will get that joke Arthur...

[@JohnConnor-qi2yz]

Wilson No!!!

[@bonehead2768]

Castaway,eh??🇨🇦

[@ferglesnerk]

Wilson seems like a bit of a trouble maker.

[@patreidcocolditzcastle632]

hows the english fly boys,look those landings when they do get it right,just 10 out of 10.the germans under estimated the british training system of there pilots.and if u think im wrong ive only one thing to say,the battle of britian.....theres a lot of variables in my statement but id dare say its accurate to a point

[@stratoleft]

Landing the Corsair on a carrier deck wasn't meant to look good. The aircraft is just above stall, or should be, and, if it's done right, the Corsair looks like its being literally dropped down onto the deck, and takes somewhat of a bounce. That is a beautiful deck landing in the Corsair. It looks awkward. Landing the Corsair has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with linearity either. If you come in nice and straight on the deck approach in the Corsair, chances are you're going too fast. You can tell by lookin' at it. If you don't wave yourself off, you're gonna wind up with the nose and the prop smacked down on the deck. You not only managed to destroy the prop, but you just put great stress on the engine, starting at the crank shaft and working it's shockwave backwards. Congratulations, ace.

[@jamesbrowne6351]

What? Put a roof on the bridge? Bloody waste of money.

[@dashcan8479]

I thought the british did not have jets? what the hell?

[@mariog9202]

Gloster meteor and the vampire but that hadnt seen combat yet

[@mariog9202]

The Americans looking at the british meteor started development of their own jets the P59A and P80 which at first used British jet engines

[@skinniestfatman5641]

Believe or not, the jet engine was a British thing but the RAF didn't see the potential in it but the germans did, think they bought the designs off us but I might be wrong that

[@nicolasfreytag9495]

C'est quand même pas large comparé au nimitz...

[@spritbong5285]

Mustang built to british specs, total crap until the airframe married the British merlin engine. Corsair to much to handle, for the yanks, until the Royal Navy tamed it and unleashed the beast.

[@dellawrence4323]

Royal Navy pilots have always been the best in the World, when the US Navy got the first F4Us the USN pilots could not figure out how to land them on their carriers, so after a few had smashed into the US carriers wooden flight decks they decided they were too dangerous for carrier use and they were only allowed to operate from US land bases, two years later the RN got hold of some and immediately started flying them from RN carriers without problems, leading to the arrogant yanks begging the Royal Navy to train USN pilots how to land on carriers.

[@1397pc]

Essentially true but then some arrogant British guy got all snotty about it and ruined the fun for everyone.

[@phillipthornton9227]

Absolute bs. Read Tommy Blackburn's "The Jolly Rogers." This US Navy squadron had worked out the bugs and carrier landing techniques by early1943 long before the Brits got any free Corsairs. Also most of the British naval aviators were trained during the war by the US Navy at Pensacola.

[@nickdanger3802]

The USN had a improved F4F Wildcat (Martlet) before the Corsair and the F6F Hellcat a few months after. The RN used the Corsair on carriers first because Britain was not manufacturing purpose built fighters for carrier operation. The RN received the Wildcat in 1940. In the Battle of Midway, June 1942, the Brewster Buffalo was still in service on Midway Island. military.wikia.org/wiki/Grumman_F4F_Wildcat

[@mac22011964]

Both my father in law (WW2 Vintage) and my Father (Korean war vintage) were both RNAS and trained at Pensacola. Both thought the training excellent however, the advanced fighter training was carried out by RN and RAF experienced pilots who had seen action. Once my father in law got back to the UK he then went to RNAS Ford near Arundel for additional carrier landing training. He flew Wildcats (Martlets), Hellcats and Corsairs in the Med and Arctic convoys. The Corsair was liked for its power and fighting capability plus wide undercarriage. Hated for the long nose and absolutely relied on the bats. I can’t imagine what that was like in the dark winter in the North Sea!

[@MBCGRS]

By the end of WW2 50% of all Fleet Air Arm fighter pilots were New Zealanders. Actually 10% of all FAA pilots were Kiwi's. Know wonder they were so good....

[@shabbatman370]

The most overrated airplane of WWII.

[@weneedtermlimits]

Why?

[@shabbatman370]

David Ross Because.

[@weneedtermlimits]

And you know this because you flew them all, right?

[@shabbatman370]

David Ross Yeah, kinda like how you know everything about dildos.

[@romanlane6189]

*Mustangs