I was 10 back in 1971. one of the last years they would fly these at full power ( air frames got to old after that ) One did a full power pass at about 350 and I droped down to the ground. The ground shock like an earth quake. No jet will impress you more..Really. Horrifying that we used these things to kill people.
Any world war II veterans who are here with us right now and flew these beautiful aircraft so we can all still speak English. I just want to say thank you. I am a USMC veteran from 1987 until 1995. Thank you for paving the way. My dream was always to be a fighter pilot. Somehow I lost focus. I became an artillery man and fought in the Gulf war. But a lot of the times I was a rifleman also as all Marines are. My biggest dream was to be able to fly. I guess I should say my biggest dream is to be in the cockpit of an F4U Corsair. I don't know if they make two seaters or not. If they don't then just strap me to one of the wings or the cowling. I want to have a good ride. It could be my last and I would love it. If there are any fighter pilots or pilots of any sort reading this, thank you for flying. When I was on the ground, we'd love to see the pilots come over top of us because they would protect us on the ground. The biggest dream I ever had was to fly in an F4U Corsair.
Andrew Griffith I have a major dream of learning to fly every would be orgasmic for me to fly either the P-51 or the F4U how awesome that would be both planes are that that I dream of
The narrator skipped over the corsair being a deadly fighter, the fastest Prop plane of WWII (451 MPH @ 19000 ft level flight) with 6x .50 or 4x 20mm (as well as several other variants it was extremely lethal in the right hands
I love to fly the puppy in war thunder sim. 523 mph dive speed. Turns very sharp if you ease into it. I would say about as fast as a spit or zero. And increased control as you gain speed. Much better handling at low speeds then the p51s. 109s. 190s.. even tho for how heavy it is. Very deadly one of my fave to fly rn
I feel I love with this specific plane as a child at this event now I loved all the ww2 planes but this thing I was completely and utterly head over heels in love with the sound the power how it run down every else at the event and the special new Zealand history make this and the p40 personal favourites
The corsair was originally with the navy but it was not good for landing on carriers,so the marines adopted the corsair and was Air support for the marines during okinawa,guadalcanal, and on two jima
The Navy had problems with main tires bursting on landing as well as the shock absorbers not dampening bounce when first deployed. Pilot landing technique changes and adjusting the dampening within the oleos (shocks) sorting out the landing issues. She was still a handful at low speeds due to the torque.
for people that don't know. The f4u-4 could maneuver as good as the spitfire or Yak3. But it could carry more bomb load than a p-47. The only candidate for best pure fighter and also, fighter/bomber of the war.
+skyfix actually the P-47 N could carry more bombs 2x1000 +1x 500 bombs + rockets & 8x.50cal But the Corsair was faster, more manueverable and could be use from carriers- definetly this old Marines favorite bird !
A beautiful airplane that has a unique and unmistakable appearance. Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep would have been proud to see this bird flying again. 🇺🇸👍👏
Beyond pretty...just plain scary looking and sounding. BTW...did anyone ever do any serious aero analysis on the gullwing configuration as pertaining to turn or climb performance?
US Corsair Fighter airflow dive whistling gives German Stuka dive bomber sirens some serious competition for the history books , Japanese in Pacific war had very good reason to nickname the Corsair Whistling Death
As a child, I read the memoirs of a chap Who Flew an F4U 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 Tune and Kiss Yer Ass Goodbye '! ... Because a 'dead-stick "landing Was very iffy.
Its lloks like its a british RN specification model of Corsair, because it has shortened wingtips, like exactly Corsair Mk1. So, if im right its not exactly plane delivered directly to New Zealand, but to british RN. Im i right?
By 1945 most Japanese pilots were so green they knew not to tangle with any Allied aircraft. The exception was the few surviving veterans who'd been recalled to Japan to help train new pilots. When carrier raids on the Japanese mainland began some of these vets tangled with the Allied fighters singlehandedly... and surprised the hell out of them.
ZOOOM and the hellcat was also great fighter wich was bigger than the Corsair it had more wing surface than the corsair,p47 thunder bolt-p38 lightning,, so it could carry more payload. and had same climb numbers but speed was just a little slower...the hell cat could land greatly on an aircraft carrier and had lots of duties and lots of Extremely Brutal numbers:: They referred to the F6F Hell Cat as the Big Blue Blanket of the Pacific...
F4U was possibly the most touchy WW2 plane to fly. Engine torque had to compensated at all times. It flew left wing heavy due to engine torque and the power of that huge 4 blade propeller. It was capable of a big bomb load and 6 wing cannons made it deadly in a dogfight. Pilots who flew it tell me they could pull 7g's in a turn and overspeed it in a dive to damn near mach one. Not sure I believe that.
It's not a stretch, my grandfather flew them in the USMC. He did say that the later model Corsairs in a clean configuration, no external tanks or weapons, would hit high subsonic speeds in a steep full power dive.
brdwonder I received a 16mm film that showed P-40 planes taking off the deck of a carrier . This was how they were shipped to North Africa. These planes had the same engine torque problem. My principal was part of the group that was on that carrier.
@soaringtractor...F4U-4 and on had the four bladed prop. Earlier versions had the 3 bladed propeller. Experiments with the 4 bladed prop were conducted on the F6F, late war but never put into production.
I think it had more to do with aerodynamics rather than the prop. The inverted gull wing on the F4U was the difference. the prop on the Hellcat was of 13'1" diameter, same as the Corsair versions with the 3 bladed prop. Grumman was looking for superior performance at selected altitudes and considered the extra blade a small price to achieve this end. More blades mean more drag. All of this was factored in. The P-47's advantage was the turbocharger, (in my view anyway) as exhaust gas turned the aux. supercharger impeller rather than power being sapped from the engine to do it. The main and the aux. blowers were powered by the engine in the Hellcat and the Corsair. I love all three planes.
DUUUHH!!!! The engine doesn't run the turbocharger DUUUHHHH!!!! The exhaust gas does!!!! DUUUHHHH!!! Anything the engine turns lowers BHP DUUUHHHH!!!! The P-47's engine turned the main blower only DUUUUHHHHH!!!! F6F and F4U engines didn't HAVE turbochargers DUUUHHHH!!! You think the Vought engineers designed the inverted gull wing to look cool? DUUUUHHH!!! Should have known better than to try to have an intelligent conversation with a fucking insecure moron.
Snobear... I thought a Hawker Seafury was fastest. Do you have stats for comparison? My question though, do radial-engined fighters such as this have similar "torque-steer" that Mustang pilots must compensate for, upon roll-out?
The year was probably 1953. Several of us went to Algiers in a C-47 for a few days and to my surprise close by was a P-47. It probably belonged to the French.
My father, Ed Libby, was a test pilot during WW2. He put the first 2 hours on the planes when they came off the assembly line in Akron, Ohio, where I was born in 1944.
@ Skyfix ... You are Right ... Only plane Equal to the Corsair , was the P - 51 in the Interceptor Role , [ With / Merlin - Liquid Cooled / Engine ] & in Ground Attack with / Air cooled Engine was Unequaled ... These Two Incredible Aircraft were Held Back by minor Glitches , / fickle ' Top Brass ' , Army & Navy & could have Come Online 12 to 18 months sooner ... That said , their True Impact was Not Measurable ... They Largely were Responsible for Controlling the Skys in the Pacific & Europe ... Their Enemies Certainly Knew ... The F4 - U Cleaned up Most of the Experienced Japanese Pilots left from early War Advantage , [ Solomons, Campaign ] before the F - 6 F , Hellcat came online ... Begs the Question : ?? .. Why Wasn't the Corsair in Europe ...?? Its Performance in Every Category , Outpaced , the P- 47 & / the Typhoon ... Ground Attack , Escort Duty & even Long - Range - Interceptor would have Been Suitably Superior to Anything the Germans Had ... Would have shortened the War & Saved , 10s of Thousands of more Lives ...
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ya, most corsair squadrons were disbanded in late 1945, it's because THE WAR WAS OVER ! you make it sound like these magnificent planes were obsolete by then!
Mills117 Mills, I was in the AF for almost four years and I was a supply technician . We had about thirty officers and one hundred airmen. Our aircraft consisted of one C-47, one C-82, two H-5 helicopters . three H-19 helicopters, four S-16A sea planes. This was in Germany 1951-1954. Yes, it seems that the smaller the part the move expensive it was. We as a group went to Algiers and there was a P-47 parked near the runway. This was about 1952. The average person could not keep one of these planes because of the expense involved. The jets who would visit were F-86 and a plane that had twin booms similar to the P-38. Some of the high ranking officers had B-17s and they had curtains on the windows. Every morning they would be sitting there with all four motors idling.
My father flew the Corsair in the south pacific in WW II...man, he loved it.
Me too
My respects to you and your father, and my gratitude for his service. From the nephew of a Cold War Marine, Semper Fi!
So did my grandfather, RNZAF 16th squadron
My great great grandpa served in ww2 and he really loved! To try a Corsair man he so excited to try it!
How lucky was your father !!!! Despite of the risks..
That was quite something! The pilot was really wringing it out! Loved the wingtip vortices!
Man, the sound of that engine makes my knees weak.
I was 10 back in 1971. one of the last years they would fly these at full power ( air frames got to old after that ) One did a full power pass at about 350 and I droped down to the ground. The ground shock like an earth quake. No jet will impress you more..Really. Horrifying that we used these things to kill people.
we are poor little lambs who have lost our way baa baa baa
@@hondo1032 We are poor Black Sheep who have gone astray,
Baa baa baa...
The Japanese called it "whispering death."
@@hondo1032 My absolute FAVORITE show when I was little!!! I used to cry at the end of every episode, lol
Any world war II veterans who are here with us right now and flew these beautiful aircraft so we can all still speak English. I just want to say thank you. I am a USMC veteran from 1987 until 1995. Thank you for paving the way. My dream was always to be a fighter pilot. Somehow I lost focus. I became an artillery man and fought in the Gulf war. But a lot of the times I was a rifleman also as all Marines are. My biggest dream was to be able to fly. I guess I should say my biggest dream is to be in the cockpit of an F4U Corsair. I don't know if they make two seaters or not. If they don't then just strap me to one of the wings or the cowling. I want to have a good ride. It could be my last and I would love it. If there are any fighter pilots or pilots of any sort reading this, thank you for flying. When I was on the ground, we'd love to see the pilots come over top of us because they would protect us on the ground. The biggest dream I ever had was to fly in an F4U Corsair.
Such a pretty bird! And that sound!!!
though deemed difficult to fly compared to others, in seasoned hands she was second to none. was always my favorite, a truly magnificent plane
Wow. Just such an amazing aircraft. To be able to get behind that stick just for 30 minutes would make me the worlds happiest man
Andrew Griffith y
Andrew Griffith I have a major dream of learning to fly every would be orgasmic for me to fly either the P-51 or the F4U how awesome that would be both planes are that that I dream of
Andrew Griffith Only if you’re a pilot!
That sound and that whistle give me a chill down my spine every time
At the Flying heritage Museum at Paine Field Everett, Wash. There's a corsair engine on display.
OMG, what a beautiful plane! I have always admired the Corsair.
Oh, he certainly knows how to do her justice! She's a real beauty!!!
Corsair: makes scary noise
Stuka: *gets jealous*
Whistling Death
The Corsair was designed to chew up and spit out Japanese Zeros which it did better than any other fighter.
My father was a Marine fighter ace in WW2 with 5.5 kills in the Corsair ... assigned to Guadalcanal and Okinawa ...he loved flying this bird !
Sorry if I sound stupid but how do you get .5 of a kill
The narrator skipped over the corsair being a deadly fighter, the fastest Prop plane of WWII (451 MPH @ 19000 ft level flight) with 6x .50 or 4x 20mm (as well as several other variants it was extremely lethal in the right hands
I love to fly the puppy in war thunder sim.
523 mph dive speed. Turns very sharp if you ease into it. I would say about as fast as a spit or zero. And increased control as you gain speed. Much better handling at low speeds then the p51s. 109s. 190s.. even tho for how heavy it is.
Very deadly one of my fave to fly rn
The Dornier Do 335 Arrow was the fastest prop plane of WWII and my favorite. The Corsair is my second favorite prop plane of WWII, though.
Dominic Viner when you reach 230 kmh in a P-51D In combat you’ve basically pulled your pants down and painted a red target on it
It was the first fighter, (or maybe any aircraft) to reach 400mph in level flight. And it was I believe the only american fighter to serve beyond WW2
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 As much as the Dornier was fast, it was to heavy to become a fighter due to it's poor rate of climb.
Love that whistling sound to it!
i actually got chills from the video
Loved that plane ever since I was I kid when I used to watch on the TV show Black Sheep Squadron late 1970s.
I feel I love with this specific plane as a child at this event now I loved all the ww2 planes but this thing I was completely and utterly head over heels in love with the sound the power how it run down every else at the event and the special new Zealand history make this and the p40 personal favourites
I totally love the F4U Corsair, starting 70 years ago when I was 5. Glenview Naval Air Station.
That was super fantastic. A great demonstration of the aircraft. And I loved the greaser landing!
The corsair was originally with the navy but it was not good for landing on carriers,so the marines adopted the corsair and was Air support for the marines during okinawa,guadalcanal, and on two jima
the RN flew corsair of carriers from day one they sort out all the issue and showed you guys how to do it 8 months before the USN
The Navy had problems with main tires bursting on landing as well as the shock absorbers not dampening bounce when first deployed. Pilot landing technique changes and adjusting the dampening within the oleos (shocks) sorting out the landing issues. She was still a handful at low speeds due to the torque.
That was beautiful.!! Can never beat the engine sounds of WW2 aircraft.
This is so awesome the whistling death originally flown by the greatest generation. Excellent daring flying great display
Some nice "Spirited" flying there. Thanks for the video!
The Corsair is genuinely fucking terrifying and I *love it.*
The Stuka’s got nothing on this yeetus.
A truly fearsome and magnificent aircraft from an era where true skill was what won the day.
The sound of it's Pratt & Whitney is like a soundtrack
for people that don't know. The f4u-4 could maneuver as good as the spitfire or Yak3. But it could carry more bomb load than a p-47. The only candidate for best pure fighter and also, fighter/bomber of the war.
+skyfix actually the P-47 N could carry more bombs 2x1000 +1x 500 bombs + rockets & 8x.50cal But the Corsair was faster, more manueverable and could be use from carriers- definetly this old Marines favorite bird !
Mate as the spiitfire? hahaha please the only thing the spitfire could do and was best at was to maneuver!
Actually, the corsair could keep up with a zero coming out of a dive, at lower speeds however, they were less maneuverable.
Love the sound of this nifty little fighter!
Seems like the perfect plane for a turbo prop conversion.
That would just ruin it! ;-)
That is one fast and beautiful bird!
That's one hell of an awesome sound!
That was freaking awesome. Great video, excellent.
A beautiful airplane that has a unique and unmistakable appearance. Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep would have been proud to see this bird flying again. 🇺🇸👍👏
Just love corsairs fav war bird and that sound man a real war bird to fear
Beautiful landing !!
Like a stroke from a tender paintbrush !!
They even look awesome landing!
They called her The Ensign Elimanator, she was tough to learn..nice video,good pilot!
Great photography, thanks for posting.
Fantastic plane.My favourite with the Spit MK 9 !!! Beautiful landing ! Thanks for this video.
I love the bend in the wing on those carrier based planes
The term: "Restored to static display condition" breaks my heart.
Sweet...all the way around. Beautiful three point landing!
Yes indeed!
great edit job , well done
Thanks -- appreciate your comments.
That beautiful harmony...
You gotta love that high pitched howl!
Wow.........awesome video and incredible plane. Just wow.
Must say, Excellent camera work !
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Can you imagine that coming at you with 6 50’s hammerin away?
Love that sound!
Thanks for posting this
Thanks for not mucking it up with silly music or overdone narrative
NICE LANDING!!
Great video. Interesting information. Thanks for sharing it!
is there still one in a swamp near hamilton airport ???
No 250 knot limit flown here. This Corsair KICKS ASS.
My favorite plane if all time!
Beyond pretty...just plain scary looking and sounding. BTW...did anyone ever do any serious aero analysis on the gullwing configuration as pertaining to turn or climb performance?
US Corsair Fighter airflow dive whistling gives German Stuka dive bomber sirens some serious competition for the history books , Japanese in Pacific war had very good reason to nickname the Corsair Whistling Death
Magnificent.
Thank you for this.
WF
UK
plz show the cockpit of that build im building a giant scale of that bird
As a child, I read the memoirs of a chap Who Flew an F4U 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 Tune and Kiss Yer Ass Goodbye '! ... Because a 'dead-stick "landing Was very iffy.
That is a beautiful bird
Man o man... huge HP +big prop... but where's the whistling death?
you can hear it at 1:24 and 2:34. I think the plane needs to be at high speed
Great footages
Beautiful mate! ✈️👍🇳🇿
Indeed it is!
Its lloks like its a british RN specification model of Corsair, because it has shortened wingtips, like exactly Corsair Mk1.
So, if im right its not exactly plane delivered directly to New Zealand, but to british RN. Im i right?
No. All historical evidence about this aircraft indicates it was one of the FG-1D's delivered directly to the RNZAF by the US.
@@HistAvFilmUnit Thanks for answer. So, i would like to ask anyway - is it plane with shorter wings like Corsair MK1 for british RN ?
You would not have wanted to see this bird coming after you back in the day.
favorite plane
What a beautiful, magical aircraft!
Is that a clipped wing (ex-RN FAA) version?
Nope. Just looks a bit like it, but it's not.
Coxy said zeros were scarce but when they saw them they were fleeing not wanting to tangle with Kiwi corsairs
By 1945 most Japanese pilots were so green they knew not to tangle with any Allied aircraft. The exception was the few surviving veterans who'd been recalled to Japan to help train new pilots. When carrier raids on the Japanese mainland began some of these vets tangled with the Allied fighters singlehandedly... and surprised the hell out of them.
That was beautiful! 😊
Glad you think so!
ZOOOM and the hellcat was also great fighter wich was bigger than the Corsair it had more wing surface than the corsair,p47 thunder bolt-p38 lightning,, so it could carry more payload. and had same climb numbers but speed was just a little slower...the hell cat could land greatly on an aircraft carrier and had lots of duties and lots of Extremely Brutal numbers:: They referred to the F6F Hell Cat as the Big Blue Blanket of the Pacific...
On some occasions, two 1000lbers were carried.
Flash forward to 1943 when the Marines made a Corsair that could carry 8,200 pounds of bombs
Japanese soldier hearing the terrifying engine sounds of the corsair flying toward him: O__o
F4U was possibly the most touchy WW2 plane to fly. Engine torque had to compensated at all times. It flew left wing heavy due to engine torque and the power of that huge 4 blade propeller. It was capable of a big bomb load and 6 wing cannons made it deadly in a dogfight. Pilots who flew it tell me they could pull 7g's in a turn and overspeed it in a dive to damn near mach one. Not sure I believe that.
It's not a stretch, my grandfather flew them in the USMC. He did say that the later model Corsairs in a clean configuration, no external tanks or weapons, would hit high subsonic speeds in a steep full power dive.
brdwonder I received a 16mm film that showed P-40 planes taking off the deck of a carrier . This was how they were shipped to North Africa. These planes had the same engine torque problem. My principal was part of the group that was on that carrier.
@soaringtractor...F4U-4 and on had the four bladed prop. Earlier versions had the 3 bladed propeller. Experiments with the 4 bladed prop were conducted on the F6F, late war but never put into production.
I think it had more to do with aerodynamics rather than the prop. The inverted gull wing on the F4U was the difference. the prop on the Hellcat was of 13'1" diameter, same as the Corsair versions with the 3 bladed prop. Grumman was looking for superior performance at selected altitudes and considered the extra blade a small price to achieve this end. More blades mean more drag. All of this was factored in. The P-47's advantage was the turbocharger, (in my view anyway) as exhaust gas turned the aux. supercharger impeller rather than power being sapped from the engine to do it. The main and the aux. blowers were powered by the engine in the Hellcat and the Corsair. I love all three planes.
DUUUHH!!!! The engine doesn't run the turbocharger DUUUHHHH!!!! The exhaust gas does!!!! DUUUHHHH!!! Anything the engine turns lowers BHP DUUUHHHH!!!! The P-47's engine turned the main blower only DUUUUHHHHH!!!! F6F and F4U engines didn't HAVE turbochargers DUUUHHHH!!! You think the Vought engineers designed the inverted gull wing to look cool? DUUUUHHH!!! Should have known better than to try to have an intelligent conversation with a fucking insecure moron.
Snobear... I thought a Hawker Seafury was fastest. Do you have stats for comparison?
My question though, do radial-engined fighters such as this have similar "torque-steer" that Mustang pilots must compensate for, upon roll-out?
Pretty much any prop driven aircraft has that issue to some extent, unless it's something with twin engines with counter-rotating props.
From 1:07 on, those are some awesome rolls.
2 thumbs up. Thank you.
Beautiful bird
Corsair entered service in late 1942-early 1943. not 1941
Lovely landing.
The year was probably 1953. Several of us went to Algiers in a C-47 for a few days and to my surprise close by was a P-47. It probably belonged to the French.
Goodyear didn't start production of these aircraft until 1943 so the 1941 date on the video is wrong.
Ooof, the rumble of that engine though
Aaahh, perfect landing!
My Grandpa also flew a corsair his kill rasho was 20 at end of ww2
Beautiful bird.
My father, Ed Libby, was a test pilot during WW2. He put the first 2 hours on the planes when they came off the assembly line in Akron, Ohio, where I was born in 1944.
go get"em pappy b love that landing nice camra work.
skipper from the movie planes
I'm gonna say thats the softest landing I've ever seen in a corsair..
That was great!
The Flaps on these birds just kill me, Every time I see them its like... ..... ...... .... Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
best bird ever *.*
nice
that pilot, doing those low, fast passes, must have felt like he was in a real dogfight
@ Skyfix ... You are Right ... Only plane Equal to the Corsair , was the P - 51 in the Interceptor Role , [ With / Merlin - Liquid Cooled / Engine ] & in Ground Attack with / Air cooled Engine was Unequaled ... These Two Incredible Aircraft were Held Back by minor Glitches , / fickle ' Top Brass ' , Army & Navy & could have Come Online 12 to 18 months sooner ... That said , their True Impact was Not Measurable ... They Largely were Responsible for Controlling the Skys in the Pacific & Europe ... Their Enemies Certainly Knew ... The F4 - U Cleaned up Most of the Experienced Japanese Pilots left from early War Advantage , [ Solomons, Campaign ] before the F - 6 F , Hellcat came online ... Begs the Question : ?? .. Why Wasn't the Corsair in Europe ...?? Its Performance in Every Category , Outpaced , the P- 47 & / the Typhoon ... Ground Attack , Escort Duty & even Long - Range - Interceptor would have Been Suitably Superior to Anything the Germans Had ... Would have shortened the War & Saved , 10s of Thousands of more Lives ...
Tough airplane, highly manueverable and fast. In the hands of the right pilot she was the most lethal machine in the air during WW2.
Agreed.
The VFM flew these planes like no one else
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Brilliant!!
corsair at 1:49 sec damn!!!
ya, most corsair squadrons were disbanded in late 1945, it's because THE WAR WAS OVER ! you make it sound like these magnificent planes were obsolete by then!
woah cool
How does someone go about getting one of these bad boys
Mills117 Get rich! :-)
Historical Aviation Film Unit even if you are rich they still have to be pretty hard to come by and the maintenance on these things has to be hell
Mills117 Mills, I was in the AF for almost four years and I was a supply technician . We had about thirty officers and one hundred airmen. Our aircraft consisted of one C-47, one C-82, two H-5 helicopters . three H-19 helicopters, four S-16A sea planes. This was in Germany 1951-1954. Yes, it seems that the smaller the part the move expensive it was. We as a group went to Algiers and there was a P-47 parked near the runway. This was about 1952. The average person could not keep one of these planes because of the expense involved. The jets who would visit were F-86 and a plane that had twin booms similar to the P-38. Some of the high ranking officers had B-17s and they had curtains on the windows. Every morning they would be sitting there with all four motors idling.
I have two these.....Both in 1/48 scale lol....sorry couldn't resist
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