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Has to be the F-8 Crusader. Superb performer that was way ahead of its land and navy equivalents. It also looked good
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The answer is in Shortround's post. Nearly 1000 operational losses not due to combat. Further breakdown of numbers is required for absolute proof but it definitely is possible.The Japanese shot down 538, by your numbers. Did that many Corsair pilots die during landings? That is the claim.
The answer is in Shortround's post. Nearly 1000 operational losses not due to combat. Further breakdown of numbers is required for absolute proof but it definitely is possible.
Shortround is one of the best posters on this forum always informative without bias..
Blackburn Skua the mount of the first British fighter ace of WWII (and also the leader of the first successful Dive bomber attack on a warship) Lt CDR William Lucy DSO RN
At the bottom of your garden ?
Yep, you might even find a Fairey - I'll get me coat !
[...] more died landing the thing than were shot down by the Japanese.
Sorry mate but it is, the first operational Corsair squadron was delayed getting into service because it was a scratch squadron made up of the pilots who survived training out of the two that started, it was given the nickname ensign killer because it killed so many of it's own pilots.Sorry Pat, that's just not true.
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Dana
Oh, I've got tons of respect for SR6, I sure wasn't meaning to pull his short hairs and I'm sorry to all if that's how I came off. I just want to see facts on Pat's claim, because 550 dead pilots would surely have shown up in the records and the history books, no?
The Marines stopped using them on carriers because of the loss rate, the RAF cut the wings down and devised new landing procedures to try and address the problem, zero visibility over the nose, it's tendency to float on landing, viscous stall and it's ability to rotate around it's own propeller all caused the high crash rate.
How the Navy Tamed the "Killer Corsair" | History | Air & Space Magazine a brief article on the problem, Winkle Brown didn't have many nice things about it either, something along the lines of it had a few good points, a couple of average ones and a heap of really bad ones.
I know it had a difficult reputation. I was asking after specific numbers showing more killed in landing accidents than shot down by Japanese, as you'd stated.
Well it killed so many it got the nickname ensign killer and the Marines stopped using it on carriers even though it was designed as a carrier aircraft, what more evidence do you want?.
Specific numbers, as I've asked now three times.
I'm left to assume there are none forthcoming.