The Last Piston-Engine Dogfights (Corsairs against Mustangs)

AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE ^ | SEPTEMBER 2015 | Preston Lerner

[sukhoi-30mki]

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for posting this article.

[csvset]

Saw a Corsair do a fly by at an airshow at NAS Alameda in ‘78. Loud !

[GeronL]

very interesting

[elcid1970]

In 1948 pilots of the new state of Israel were flying Messerschmitt 109’s & shooting down Egyptians flying British Spitfires.

[Dr. Sivana]

I'd put my money on the Ford Mustang.

[bunkerhill7]

Saw Corsairs coming out of the CT factory and flying in 1944. [Ol geezer]

[artichokegrower]

the war was the culmination of longstanding tension over immigration and land reform
How about a few Mustangs and Corsairs patrolling our border to alleviate the longstanding tension over immigration.

[Agamemnon]

Saw Corsairs coming out of the CT factory and flying in 1944. [Ol geezer]

You lived in Lordship/Stratford, CT then?

FReegards!

[Tallguy]

The Israelis had Spits, too. Their Messerschmitts — Czech-built Avia-199’s — were equipped with Jumo engines and non-standard props. Those dogs had fleas. But the IDF was buying everything they could get on the international arms market.

[Stosh]

Clever (I’d be happy to own either).

[grobdriver]

How about a few Mustangs and Corsairs patrolling our border to alleviate the longstanding tension over immigration.

Won't work.
The FAA won't let us arm them.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I had not heard about this.

[JRios1968]

IATZ

[elcid1970]

In the film “Battle of Britain” the Messerschmitts & Heinkels were Spanish built IIRC; the former with engines that were distinctly unlike Junkers Jumo’s during startup. The Ju-52 in the intro was postwar produced.

Once Israel became a sovereign state the postwar milsurp market offered them aircraft for sale at pennies on the dollar, especially in the U.S.

[bunkerhill7]

Also saw Sikorsky`s helicopters, “BIG BUGS”, flying 1944-45.

[wildbill]

If there were gun cameras on these planes, it would make for some thrilling footage on one of the cable military channels.

[jaydubya2]

One of the Honduran F4U-5N made it back to the states, was restored to flying condition, and was a featured plane at a aviation museum I volunteered at. I cleaned the oil off the cowl of that radial several times!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

They had a P-51 at an airshow before they closed BNAS.

It was sitting over on the runway idling...exhaust popping and backfiring...sounded like the ultimate bad-ass hotrod.

[Tallguy]

The ex-Spanish AF ME-109’s used in the movie “Battle of Britain” we sporting RR Merlin engines. Even the engine cowling were moded.

I think I saw a ME-109 being restored in upstate NY that had a Hispano engine.