Love the 190 Dora version (1 Viewer)

[Shyguy151]

Besides the Chance Vought Corsair from the wooden warbirds collection I am blown away by the FW 190. My second favorite bird of the war,but I doubt I would want to go up against it in a Corsair. That is one mean looking airplane. I can see why they called it the butcher bird. I hope K&C produces other versions or a TA152 version. Nice plane! I would love to see an affordable Corsair in both American and British versions too.

On a seperate subject does anybody know where I could find pictures of British Cordairs going up against German aircraft like ME 109's? I know they did, but most of the fighting pictures show them in the pacific theatre of operations.

 

[lancer]

I would like to see a New Zealand version of the Corsair. My father took several pictures of NZ Corsairs on an island base, (maybe Bougainville), while he was with Naval Intelligence in WW2. -- Al

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Besides the Chance Vought Corsair from the wooden warbirds collection I am blown away by the FW 190. My second favorite bird of the war,but I doubt I would want to go up against it in a Corsair. That is one mean looking airplane. I can see why they called it the butcher bird. I hope K&C produces other versions or a TA152 version. Nice plane! I would love to see an affordable Corsair in both American and British versions too.

On a seperate subject does anybody know where I could find pictures of British Cordairs going up against German aircraft like ME 109's? I know they did, but most of the fighting pictures show them in the pacific theatre of operations.

I think the Royal Navy used Corsairs in carrier operations in Norway where the did come up against Me109s and FW190s on rare occasions

Terry

 

[Shyguy151]

I would like to see a New Zealand version of the Corsair. My father took several pictures of NZ Corsairs on an island base, (maybe Bougainville), while he was with Naval Intelligence in WW2. -- Al

Al I would like to see that version too, it was a good plane once they learned how to fly them. The US Navy was against using them at first due to some serious carrier incidents. I guess you had to bleed off the air speed in a dog leg turn instead of a normal carrier approach. I find it amazing the number of aircraft that were sidelined because we either had the wrong engines or did not take the time to learn the flight characteristics. The P51 almost spent the war in the ground attack role until the Brits stuck a Merlin in one. I think the British were the ones that taught the US how to get them on carriers. For awhile they were in the ground attack role them they began retrofitting marine squadrons and some of the navy squadrons. I would love to see the pictures and the markings.

 

[TomB]

Al I would like to see that version too, it was a good plane once they learned how to fly them. The US Navy was against using them at first due to some serious carrier incidents. I guess you had to bleed off the air speed in a dog leg turn instead of a normal carrier approach. I find it amazing the number of aircraft that were sidelined because we either had the wrong engines or did not take the time to learn the flight characteristics. The P51 almost spent the war in the ground attack role until the Brits stuck a Merlin in one. I think the British were the ones that taught the US how to get them on carriers. For awhile they were in the ground attack role them they began retrofitting marine squadrons and some of the navy squadrons. I would love to see the pictures and the markings.

You are right about the Brits showing the US Navy how to land the Corsair on carriers...keeping in mind the Brit carriers were smaller than the USN's....the Brits were also the one's to invent the angled flight deck on carriers....I am not sure but they also invented a mirror landing system for CVN's.....NZ had Corsairs during the war,,,good choice,,,,early in the war the only aircraft Aust had was Hudson bombers...a form of T6 as a fighter...a home built Fighter Bomber call the Boomarang..powered by a DC3 engine .. none of them a match for the Zero A4. later in the war Kittyhawks....Beau-fighters.....Spitfires ...dont think they had P51's....they did build a P1..based on the P51..which was faster than the P51 but that was scrapped at wars end...TomB

 

[Shyguy151]

You are right about the Brits showing the US Navy how to land the Corsair on carriers...keeping in mind the Brit carriers were smaller than the USN's....the Brits were also the one's to invent the angled flight deck on carriers....I am not sure but they also invented a mirror landing system for CVN's.....NZ had Corsairs during the war,,,good choice,,,,early in the war the only aircraft Aust had was Hudson bombers...a form of T6 as a fighter...a home built Fighter Bomber call the Boomarang..powered by a DC3 engine .. none of them a match for the Zero A4. later in the war Kittyhawks....Beau-fighters.....Spitfires ...dont think they had P51's....they did build a P1..based on the P51..which was faster than the P51 but that was scrapped at wars end...TomB

Things were very messed up in the begining of the war for the Allies. Germany was certainly not doing anybody favors, but Pearl Harbor caught us pretty good. If it had not been for the Russians at Stalingrad, and the US Navy at Midway it would have been a much longer war and the outcome might have been vastly different. I think you would have had a negotiated peace all around with some pretty good concesions to the axis powers. I was out at Point Mugu which has an airport right next to it where the Commerative Air Force is and looking at those planes is amazing. They fired up a Hellcat which was a pretty good plane in its own right, and it was sight to see. I also got to talk to a guy who flew ME 262's right after the war for testing and I never realized that the operational flight time was normally less than twenty minutes from take off to landing. Yep, they could go over 500 knots, but take offs and landings were slow and vulnerable. Interesting fact on the Corsair, a USMC one shot down a Mig 15 in Korea They trooped on long after the a great deal of the other ones had gone by the wayside. Argentina used them up until the 70's in various roles.

 

[uksubs]

Besides the Chance Vought Corsair from the wooden warbirds collection I am blown away by the FW 190. My second favorite bird of the war,but I doubt I would want to go up against it in a Corsair. That is one mean looking airplane. I can see why they called it the butcher bird. I hope K&C produces other versions or a TA152 version. Nice plane! I would love to see an affordable Corsair in both American and British versions too.

On a seperate subject does anybody know where I could find pictures of British Cordairs going up against German aircraft like ME 109's? I know they did, but most of the fighting pictures show them in the pacific theatre of operations.

I love the Dora and have two ,a Ta 152 would be great as well

 

[Mitch]

Agree a TA 152 would be a good to do.
Mitch

I love the Dora and have two ,a Ta 152 would be great as well

 

[TomB]

Things were very messed up in the begining of the war for the Allies. Germany was certainly not doing anybody favors, but Pearl Harbor caught us pretty good. If it had not been for the Russians at Stalingrad, and the US Navy at Midway it would have been a much longer war and the outcome might have been vastly different. I think you would have had a negotiated peace all around with some pretty good concesions to the axis powers. I was out at Point Mugu which has an airport right next to it where the Commerative Air Force is and looking at those planes is amazing. They fired up a Hellcat which was a pretty good plane in its own right, and it was sight to see. I also got to talk to a guy who flew ME 262's right after the war for testing and I never realized that the operational flight time was normally less than twenty minutes from take off to landing. Yep, they could go over 500 knots, but take offs and landings were slow and vulnerable. Interesting fact on the Corsair, a USMC one shot down a Mig 15 in Korea They trooped on long after the a great deal of the other ones had gone by the wayside. Argentina used them up until the 70's in various roles.

I believe a Brit Sea Fury pilot...Fleet Air Arm..also got himself a MIG 15.....The Sea Fury was, I believe, a very good naval aircraft...Tom

 

[Beaufighter]

I believe a Brit Sea Fury pilot...Fleet Air Arm..also got himself a MIG 15.....The Sea Fury was, I believe, a very good naval aircraft...Tom

Spot on Tom-good memory. Here are the details and an image of the Robert Taylor lithograph depicting the feat...Flying an 805 Squadron Sea Fury in 1952, 'Hoagy' Carmichael downed a North Korean MiG.

Check Six,
~Beau