WW2 Corsair Flies Again After Years On The Ground

[@jamesroseby3823]

Let’s s hope she opens the next Classic Fighters Airshow with another spectacular “‘round the corner” low level steep turn fly past. It’s been sadly missed.

[@ZacYates]

Due to housing developments the display line changed at the most recent airshow, so sadly the Omaka Corner is no more. Hood Aerodrome at Masterton, however...

[@jamesroseby3823]

@@ZacYates What a travesty. So all that remains are the photographs (videos) and memories? How sad. At least I’ve some beauties of Keith Skilling clearly observable in the cockpit as he hooted around the corner. No better opening to any Airshow the world over.

[@CharlieHorse221]

This is absolutley fabulous news, I didnt think that we would ever see her again, congratulations to the new owner and the team given the responsiblity of looking after her . WOW !!

[@johnlovell513]

Congratulations Mike Anne and I would love to see it flying again next air show.

[@christopheschwartz7374]

Mon préféré! Il est absolument superbe, depuis que j'en ai vus un de près au salon du Bourget! Salutations de France 🇨🇵😊🇳🇿

[@allgood6760]

Awesome mate👍✈️🇳🇿

[@pastorrich7436]

Wish I was there! Kia Ora NZ5648.

[@ShaneScott69]

would love to see this painted in 23 squadron colors with the grim reaper painted on the side

[@conradboykoii1170]

Being it was a clipped wing version for operations on RN carriers, it should carry RN style markings. Very beautifully reatored though! The Corsair was a favorite of mine, when I was teenager, I built like 20 them and hung them from the ceiling like they were bouncing a squadron of Zeroes. Yeah, probably a bit obsessive, but it looked good!

[@amelierenoncule]

As a child in my motherland, mes amis, I read the memoirs of a chap who was a combat pilote of 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 Happy Tune and Kiss Your Ass Goodbye '! ... because a 'dead-stick’ landing was very iffy.

[@kevinkohler2750]

So strange to see a clipped-wing Corsair in USN livery. I agree with the folks below - she belongs in her RNZAF livery!

[@HistAvFilmUnit]

It'll happen eventually.

[@brycenew]

Excellent video & information. Do you know if it’ll be returned to its RNZAF markings / paint scheme? Thanks

[@HistAvFilmUnit]

Quite possible at some stage down the track.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

Beautiful machine! As a kid in the 1960s I remember one of these stabled in a paddock next to a farmers house somewhere around Te Kuiti, Waitomo or Otorohanga or elsewhere in the Waikato. It appeared to be in very good condition. There was nothing around but this brick house and incongruously, the Corsair beside the road. Whatever happened to it, or did I just imagine it? I do remember that for some unfathomable reason my father wasn’t particularly interested in buying it, and at 9 years I didn’t have the dough. 😭

[@stenalbertsen2440]

Great stuff 😎👍.

[@itchy108]

I once asked Keith Skilling what was his favourite WW2 fighter to fly and he said the Corsair without hesitation.

[@20mmGamer]

Yay! Please, please, please repaint it in RNZAF colours...asks he knowing it would be a very very expensive thing to do... 🙂

[@brentdykgraaf184]

Sexy on the ground....baddass sounding...like an Albatros in the air.

[@flypawels]

👍

[@antonydaviessimpson643]

Was this recent? Or years ago

[@antonydaviessimpson643]

What about the p40 from Masterton anyone know about what happened to it

[@MBCGRS]

Today... Frank Parker flying...

[@HistAvFilmUnit]

Today 2 Sept 2023

[@skippmclovan1135]

I knew a former RNZAF pilot of one of these during WW11. His name was Neville Jackson. After the war he returned to running his family one man bicycle shop business in Anzac Avenue (Auckland) during the fifties and sixties. After that I lost touch with him. My father a former RNZAF B24 pilot over Europe, held Neville in quiet high regard. He told me you didn't sit behind the control column of a Corsair unless you were a more than capable pilot.

[@MBCGRS]

Frank Parker flying...

[@HistAvFilmUnit]

YEs.

[@grahameasplin5391]

Historical Please make sure your facts are correct. She was not 16 years in MOTAT. Thank you

[@joeshmoe9978]

I'm glad that they fly it with the landing gear extended 😌. I cringe thinking about an irreplaceable war bird crashing. 😬

[@HistAvFilmUnit]

Only because this was a pre-maintenance ferry flight.

[@joeshmoe9978]

@@HistAvFilmUnit 😳