History Channel Heavy Metal: Corsair
Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:19 am
Just happened to catch a show on the History Channel this morning - it's part of the Heavy Metal series and this episode was on the F4U Corsair.
I'm no Corsair expert, but everything seemed legit - in fact, I give the show 4 out of 5 stars. It was great. Veteran interviews. Excellent wartime footage; including some I hadn't seen before instead of the same old reruns. Nice video shots of the Dallas CAF Corsair flying, to include in-cockpit video. Beautiful airplane! (It may have been recycled video shot in 2001, but it was still top notch.)
There was even a shot of an F6F carrier wreck and the announcer called it a Hellcat instead of trying to sneak it in as another Corsair.
The only thing missing was a :05 segment with the current-day Warbird pilot talking about their Corsair and the like - woulda been a nice touch.
We need to find out who created this episode and send them a High-5!
I'm no Corsair expert, but everything seemed legit - in fact, I give the show 4 out of 5 stars. It was great. Veteran interviews. Excellent wartime footage; including some I hadn't seen before instead of the same old reruns. Nice video shots of the Dallas CAF Corsair flying, to include in-cockpit video. Beautiful airplane! (It may have been recycled video shot in 2001, but it was still top notch.)
There was even a shot of an F6F carrier wreck and the announcer called it a Hellcat instead of trying to sneak it in as another Corsair.
The only thing missing was a :05 segment with the current-day Warbird pilot talking about their Corsair and the like - woulda been a nice touch.
We need to find out who created this episode and send them a High-5!
Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:29 am
The whole series of Heavy Metal/Battle Stations episodes are amongst my most favorite productions to ever air on the History Channel. I try to maintain copies of each of the aircraft episodes, which includes the Corsair, Spitfire, B-26, P-51, Mosquito, Lancaster, P-38, ME-262, C-47, and possibly some others, such as the ME-163. I believe most if not all of the episodes have been around for up to 7 years now, and cycle through the History International channel from time to time.
Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:37 am
Just as long as they don't take Pawn Stars off to actually put a show about history on...on the HISTORY Channel!!!!!!!
Their programming is so over the road. Like Ice Road Truckers on the Military Channel and other programming choices like that.
PFTTTTTTT! to those channels. But every now and then, a gem comes out of all that rubbish. They still have all kind of factual errors like showing Viet Nam era Skyraiders in the same footage as P-47's in Europe during WWII. But overall, not too bad.
Critic Kelly
Their programming is so over the road. Like Ice Road Truckers on the Military Channel and other programming choices like that.
PFTTTTTTT! to those channels. But every now and then, a gem comes out of all that rubbish. They still have all kind of factual errors like showing Viet Nam era Skyraiders in the same footage as P-47's in Europe during WWII. But overall, not too bad.
Critic Kelly
Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:08 pm
Caught the Corsair show this morning. Pretty good, although a bit superficial. They repeated the old story about Kamikaze's immolating themselves as part of the "emperor worship" cult, when the reality was a good bit more complicated. The show also ended with WWII..it would have been nice to see something about the Corsair's use in Korea, and maybe an addendum about its service in Central America into the 1970s.
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SN
Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:35 pm
OR its effect on air racing starting right after the war to today. I had to get my "Bent Throttles" plug in there!
Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:43 pm
I love the pic of the F2G... Check out that right rudder!!