Original Korean War Corsair F4U-5NL Nightfighter | Pure Sound!

Listen to the powerful R2800 Radial Engine as this Original Korean War Corsair F4U-5NL Nightfighter tears through the skies over Gelnhausen on it`s debut flight in front of a large audience.
Aircraft was build in 1950 and served in combat missions in the korean war.
Display is flown by Georg Raab.

HISTORY
Chance-Vought F4U-5NL Corsair “Devotion”

Particularly noteworthy about this aircraft is that #124541 has a verifiable history. The history can be traced on the basis of the still existing “History Card” (Curriculum Vitae or CV), which was available for all Navy/Marines aircraft. Unfortunately, these CVs have often been lost – not so with #124541.

Following the history card, #124541 flew with “VMF513” over Korea. The “VMF513” is one of the most famous operational units of the U.S. Marines and was nicknamed “Flying Nightmares” at the time. The history card was later provided to MaxAlpha Aviation by the son of the former operational pilot Al Sadeski.

After around 25 years in an Argentinian museum, the aircraft was sold in Argentina in 1991 and then taken to Le Castellet in France in 1994. There, the Corsair was rebuilt over many years of painstaking work. As part of this restoration, the F4U-5 was converted to the F4U-7 series to represent an aircraft of the Aéronavale (the French Navy). The F4U-7 F-AZYS was flown by Ramon Josa, who was a Corsair pilot with Aéronavale during his active service. In keeping with the -7 series, the Corsair was also given a matching serial number, #133704. The F-AZYS was a welcome guest at various airshows and was very well known.

In December 2009, MaxAlpha Aviation GmbH acquired the F-AZYS and the aircraft was transferred to its new home airport in Bremgarten (EDTG) on December 2nd by the aforementioned Ramon Josa. In 2010, the F-AZYS was flown intensively and was also a guest at the “Flying Legends” airshow in Duxford, now with the nose art “Cielito”. After finding out the unique history of this special Corsair, the original condition of the -5 series was restored by MeierMotors and finally painted in its original colors. It was then given the registration D-FCOR, which it still bears today.

In November 2023, Flying Legends GmbH acquired the Corsair. Since then, the D-FCOR has been stationed at Siegerland Airport and is part of the Flying Legends collection.

00:00 Intro
00:10 Engine crank
00:17 Startup
00:44 Wing unfold
01:32 Runup
01:47 Takeoff
02:34 Aerobatics
05:19 Landing
05:43 Taxi, shutoff
06:54 Credits

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[stephen]

The profile of the Corsair is just so damn wicked. The Mustang and Corsair are two of the best looking aircraft from WWII. And the big radial engine sound is very distinguishable. The best.

[Sally]

Thank you for no loudspeaker commentary or music other that the beautiful sound of Devotion’s engine!

[brianperry]

Watched the film 'Devotion' a few weeks back...damn, those later Corsairs were mean machines...

[zeitenrad]

Sehr schöne Aufnahmen, toller Sound und ein ausgezeichneter Pilot, butterweich aufgesetzt, Klasse Georg!

[georgedavall]

Paddy Patrone
Nothing like the sound of a Radial Engine!
Back When America WAS Great, and in her Finest Hour, and when things were made to last!
Excellent Pilot! Beautiful Plane, and splendid footage! 👍💪✌😊

[George-pphr]

Beautiful. Love the Corsair. It's always a pleasure to see this tough rugged metal bird. One of many best of Vought industries. Love that radial engine sound. One of the very best and a favourite of mine. Plenty models of this Aircraft to build. Fantastic.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️

[emersoncaicedo]

Very very serious piece of equipment. These late version Corsairs are incredible machines. The epitome of piston fighter development along with other British superprops

[randytwidwell]

This pilot knows how to correctly land and take off with a Corsair. Well done great video who ever you are wish that was me looks like FUN. RBT

[raybame]

Great post. Beautiful plane nicely flown. Liked total video including shut down. Thanks.

[MadJack_I_]

Als der Motor ansprang, hatte ich sofort Pipitränen😂 in den Augen. Dieser Sound ist eine Ode an die Ingenieurs Kunst.

[darkredvan]

Großartiges Video von einem außergewöhnlichen Flugzeug. Danke für deinen Post.

[sergeigen]

the doppler effect is so damned cool on this video

[KierowcaBombowca]

Fun fact:The f4u's landing gear was designed to be especially strong to be used as an additional airbrake.

[MisterRedBlueBlur]

Wenn man bei solch einer Flugvorführung als Zuschauer live- und nahe dabei ist, dann spürt man beim Start so richtig die Vibrationen am ganzen Leib. Der Boden bebt nahezu. Tolle Aufnahme.👍 Danke fürs Teilen.🙂

[MrMan]

Baddest Corsair in the air today!!!…the later Corsairs performed considerably better than the early Corsairs…that’s why the FG-2’s never went into production because they just worked so good already!

[chrisambrose]

I knew a pilot that flew one of these and was almost killed when soon after takeoff maintenance forgot to put a lock nut on the bolt that holds the throttle cable onto the carburetor. He survived but did not fly after that. God bless our servicemen! 💙🇺🇸👍🙋‍♂️🖖🏻

[seaemperor]

That's a great sound
I was on the airshow myself too but on Sunday
Thanks for sharing 👍

[giljeep]

magnifique avion, superbe démonstration, que du bonheur!!! merci.

[MrMan]

That guy knows his way around a stick and rudder!..

[roloaddict]

Thank you for letting the engine and airflow be your soundtrack. Does the pilot ladder retract manually, automatically or by the ground crew? Saw it was still down as you took off and down when you shut down.