How an F4U Corsair Pilot Did the Impossible

Get your own efforyou!

Only morons will believe in this fairy tale story, the MiG-15 was a jet plane which the speed was much faster than the WW2 piece of garbage F4U Corsair.

Yak-9's shooting down F-80's. F4U Corsairs and Sea Furies shooting down MiG-15's to a Po-2 shooting down a F-94.

The air war over Korea is so interesting to me because it was a mash of the end of the prop era and the beginnings of the jet era.

Great warbird story, well done and great RC model of my favorite airplane, ever.

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The F4U is an outstanding airplane. It outlived the vaunted P51 and almost survived being relevant into modern times.

I live in New York and have a spitfire model. Can anyone tell me where to go and put it together?

Please do a video on kid Hoffer that flew a P51-C in Europe.... And you can never go wrong with a Pappy Bolington video.

The Royal Air force ,showed the yanks how to fly them ,fact

In 1998 I got to know Mr. Folmar as a patient. He was a real gentleman. He told me his story and it felt like I was there with him. His wife brought in a copy of Life magazine with Mr. Fulmar’s MiG tale. I was proud to know him.

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Great video, I love the corsair. Sorry to be pedantic, but I just want to give the USMC some love since Captain Folmar was a Marine and VMA-312 is a USMC fighter squadron. (The corsairs in the video have Navy markings, but I understand you may not have had the Marine models available)

I am actually more impressed he only spent 8 minutes in the water being rescued than his feats in the air! If only an ambulance could arrive in less than 8 days here in modern peacetime Australia!!!

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If it's impossible then it couldn't have happened. I suggest a dictionary. 🤣

Are you even aware of the belligerents in the Korean War? We weren't fighting the Soviets. It was the U.S. (well, technically the U.N.) vs. North Korea. Even though the North Koreans did use Soviet "advisors", they never fought under Soviet colors. Learn your history.

This is classified top secret, but the truth is, those " Corsairs" had a newly invented gatling gun hidden in the tail end aimed by an automated radar directed system of electric motors. A Mig pilot would think this old world war 2 airplane was a sitting duck, so he got directly behind it and pulled the trigger. The Mig would be shot down before it's pilot knew what was happening.
It's code name was the FU2.

MiGs are illegal terror weapons due to those terror jets constantly terrorized the skies and attack innocent creatures in the skies and on the land.

Corsair🔛🔝 imo

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my man shot down a mig, got shot down and got picked up faster than an uber

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Great video but one mistake. Those were North Korean pilots not soviet pilots. The Soviet union provided arms and equipment and "advisors" but did not participate directly in the war.

You are awesome! Keep it up!

USSR Soviets/communists, North Korea/communists NOT Soviets!

It's not the plane, it's the pilot.

Chuck Yeager shot down an ME 262 German jet in WW2, flying a P-51 mustang.

It was an open secret during the Korean War and after that Soviet fighter pilots flew a number of MiG-15 fighter jets against the Americans, British, and Australians. The British Commonwealth Gloster Meteor twin-engine jets from WW2, flying at a maximum speed of 580 mph, were no match for the Soviet MiG-15s flying at 660 mph.
The American Government and the U.S. Air Force steadfastly denied there were Soviet fighter pilots in the MiGs and to this day continue to stick to that line. But it later became another open secret that the U.S. Government desperately wanted to prevent the spread of the Korean War and so denied the existence of Soviet fighter pilots. In a rare case of convergent political aims, Josef Stalin, Soviet premier and dictator, also wanted to keep the Korean War limited. The Soviet Air Force kept the identities of their MiG-15 pilots over northern Korea secret and did not publicize any news of them back in Russia.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991-92, a number of former Soviet MiG-15 pilots, now retired, elderly men, came out of the woodwork to boast about shooting down American jets during the Korean War. This included other American jets like the F-80 Shooting Star and the F-84 Thunderjet and the U.S. Navy F9F Panther.
Osprey Publishing offers a paperback book, Soviet MiG-15 Fighter Aces Over Korea. The book includes first-hand interviews and accounts from these retired Soviet MiG-15 fighter pilots, who if to be believed, shot down three American jets for every MiG-15 lost. This varies widely from the revised American U.S. Air Force claim of 7.5 MiG-15 jets to one American jet. Modern historians tend to discount U.S. Air Force claims, offering instead still favorable ratios of 5 to 1, 3 to 1, even as low as 2.5 to 1.
There is an apocryphal account of a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet pilot shooting down a first-generation Soviet or Red Chinese Yak-15 jet fighter near the North Korean-Red Chinese border, but the story has not been verified. By 1950-51, all Soviet Yak-15 fighter jets - utilizing reverse-engineered copies of the German Jumo 004 jet engine renamed the Klimov - had been relegated to jet trainers as well as its successor the Yak-17 jet fighter.

Jesse Folmar started out as an enlisted fighter pilot in the U.S. Marines. Sometime in 1943, the U.S. Navy and Marines decided to transition all enlisted pilots into commissioned officers. Jesse Folmar ended WW2 as a captain flying the F4U-1D Corsair.
But after the war, the Marines handed Folmar a hard choice. Remain a fighter pilot at the rank of Master Sergeant or keep his captain rank and transfer to tanks. Folmar decided to remain a fighter pilot.
During the Korean War, Folmar applied for and entered Officer Candidate School, once more becoming a commissioned officer at the rank of second lieutenant. Folmar began the climb back up the commissioned officer ranks again. At the end of the Korean War, Jesse Folmar was once more a Marine captain flying his beloved F4U-4 Corsair. Folmar would retire from the Marines at the rank of major.

Were the Migs flown by Russian or Korean pilots tho?

The mig pilot was stupid

Should be called an FU4 lol

It must have been galling to US pilots to realise they were being shot down by a jet that was powered by a reverse engineered Rolls Royce Nene engine!

My dad was a plane captain on USS Princeton and USS Antietam during Korea and worked on the F4U's. They were a favorite with the infantry.

Absolutely incredible. He was in the water for only eight minutes USA all the way.

My Grandfather flew the F4U Corsair in WWII and Vets in the Korean war. Very well made video! Thanks!

Finally, after waiting since I was a kid, I finally got to see a F4U Corsair not only fly but take pictures up close. I can now die a happy man! Took my kids to the Warhawk Air Museum Air Show in Nampa, ID last weekend where we saw three P-40 Warhawk's, three different P-51 Mustangs (including the Boise Bee), a P-38 Lightning, a B-25 Mitchell, some T-6's and torpedo bombers and of course the F4U Corsair. So glad I took my kids there to hear the 1940's music and watch these warbirds fly right over us.

My favorite Warbird ❤

I have to make some corrections. Folmar wasn't a CAPT in the Navy, he was a CPT in the Marine Corps. 3 levels of ranks difference. Plus, his plane would have had MARINES painted on the side; not NAVY. Most O-6 Captains, or Colonels were not doing as much flying, as they would have been commanding. O-6 CAPT or COL is one rank below admiral or general. Yes. it does make a difference. This is history, after all.

Lets see a 5 second burst from 6 guns at aprox 800 rounds per minute is about 400 rounds at the Mig !

All Hail to the Almighty Corsair!!

Excelente matéria. Quem diria, um erro do piloto soviético que saiu caro para o inimigo; e por outro lado o piloto do Corsair acabou entrando para a História, por ser o primeiro a abater um Mig. Seja como for as duas aeronaves até hoje impressiona

Speed spread not that great and it can turn inside the jet.

It all too simple to said that yes

Prop driven engine can do tider turn, had low stall speed. Jets in other hand is the opposite of that.

great story but the fms corsair is underpowered beautiful model however but needs way more power just to slow.

The Cosair was the Warthog of its day.

Royal Navy pilot did that in a Sea Fury piston engined fighter