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Se que a los pilotos del Corsair (que tenía un potencia y un par de coj...) les instruían para no dar motor en el aterrizaje. Precisamente por eso.

This is bad ass. That is one hell of a pilot to fly that thing with those old controls.

Engine torque.

when I first got into the airlines I flew regularly with a guy who flew corsairs off of carriers. his name was Roland Creps and he was a great pilot.

Based on other pics that’s definitely Don Troyer crashing the Hellcat, then getting the mock LSO debrief with the bandage on his head. Ace R.B. Porter was in VMF-511 at the time and Troyer happened to be flying “his” airplane with Porter’s name on it.

I'm no pilot but his initial angle of attack seemed a bit steep. There's a video on YT of a pilot who flies these during airshows, and he mentioned that the plane will lift itself when taking off. In other words, go easy on the yoke.

2Lt Edward Clifford Groves 1919-1945, from Chicago, Illinois

I wonder what exactly killed him tho. He landed on the belly at low speed. Did he just get caught in the belts? And dragged down?

Classic departure stall followed by a torque roll all in the space of about six seconds. My right foot was subconsciously stomping on the right rudder pedal. RIP.

32°47'N 119°00'W is 53 km west of San Clemente island.

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 that the Flight Manual stated 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.

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 that the Flight Manual stated 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.

That had to be a wild last five seconds. I wonder what was going through his mind ?

Good perspective to see how huge those planes are

Sholder harness not locked for landing. His face went right into the panel.

No sound on video. People don't know it but the City of Goleta, CA is a coastal town just Southeast of Santa Barbara and during WWII it was a collection / shipping point for crude oil that was, and still today is held in storage tanks then transported to Long Beach for refining. During the war, a Japanese submarine surfaced just off the coast and shelled the oil storage yard. As you can imaging, this caused a great deal of concern and warranted a military presence up and down the coast. FURTHER ... and again most people don't know it, but during WWII German submarines sunk 174 US ships just off the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. They sunk several US ships using the lights of Coney Island to silhouette them against the dark sky. People visiting Coney Island applauded thinking it was a fireworks show.

Thanks !

Great video, guy putting the flames out on Corsair #71 is interesting.

F4UD's.

How is that fatal. Couldn't he just swim out? The cockpit was even open.

Corsairs

The pilots here were Lt or Major rank. Imagine the chances of the remaining Japanese pilots against these seasoned warriors of the air.

Sorry fellows…the smoking lamp is out in squadrons spaces….forever!

Thanks for sharing this.

From the cockpit scenes it looks like they are flying F4U's?

I hope Cpl. John Tyler made it. Greatest generation!

The men know the war in Europe is over. That must have been hard for them. The greatest generation.

Great video!

Kinda washed out. No sound. That would have been something!

No sound??

Can anyone Lip Read what the Captain is saying?

This USS Block Island is the replacement ship for CVE-21 also named Block Island which was sank by German Uboat U-549 on Friday, May 5, 1944, West - North West of the Canary Islands. The only US Carrier to be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean during WW2.

When you see those young man, kind of sad to think about, they’re probably all gone now that was our greatest generation

The British Pacific fleet operated off these small islands and toward Formosa in April and May 1945 during Iceberg. They employed the carriers Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable and Indefatigable. Illustrious was replaced by another one Formidable during the campaign. Another one Implacable arrived in June too late to see service in Iceberg. The British stopped operating in May although the campaign carried on through much of June.

The pitch stall was the worst part. Roll and yaw could have been handled if the left wing had not stalled first.

Good Lord, imagine being the next guy to have to take off after poor Lt Groves died right in front of you

The Ensign Eliminator doing what it was doing best if you didn’t fly it correctly.

Great stuff.

Looked like had full up elevator.

I'm surprised they even tried flying Corsairs on or off of escort carriers. Too big, too heavy. They were even considered unsuitable for fleet carrier operations at first. That's why escort carriers flew F4F and FM-2 Wildcats up to the end of the war. I've read about experimental attempts to fly Hellcats on CVEs, too, that did not work out, either, and for the same reason. I remember seeing a photo of a Hellcat pilot in his cockpit, missing a landing on a CVE, last photo of him taken while he was alive. The F8F Bearcat was supposed to be the escort carrier fighter to replace the Wildcat, but it did not deploy until the war ended.

That was probably a very awkward cake eating ceremony later in the evening.

Great footage! I'm so glad to see someone has this archived somewhere to preserve.

And now our Navy, not so much.

Just excellent !

That can't have felt very nice!

What do the first three planes shown landing on the deck have to do with it? the one that acutally had the missed landing wasn't filmed? just the ditch part was?

This is really great thank you

Watching the Corsairs and the Avengers, taking off and landing, I remember my father, which was a World War II Naval aviator saying the Corsairs were a little tricky and the Avengers were like flying a big old Cadillac.

Glade I was in the USAF.

I love these old films.