[Aeronaut]

Thanks for the tip Faux-hog.

[Aeronaut]

[Clara Lou]

I hope the pilot was OK. Terrible loss of a great plane.

[LiteKeeper]

Wow!

[TruthFactor]

!!! WOW !!! What a close call! I've always wanted to go to Reno to see the air races.

[Enterprise]

I hope the pilot is ok also. And what a loss of such a magnificent plane!

[EagleUSA]

Kudos to that good pilot -- he wanted to get that plane away from everyone before he jumped -- brave guy -- that baby was flaming -- too bad he had to lose it. Rare bird these days.

[Lockbar]

So few of WW2 beauties remain. Perhaps they should start flying newer air-frames and leaves these for historical displays.

[U S Army EOD]

That guy is mighty lucky his chute didn't catch fire. Glad he made it okay. Too bad about the aircraft.

[Moose4]

Wow. We lost another Corsair a few years ago at an airshow in Columbia, South Carolina. A fellow named Joe Tobul was flying his beautifully-restored F4U-4 "Korean War Hero" in formation with his grandson and a couple of other guys in T-6 trainers, when he lost power. He couldn't get it back to the airport and wound up crashing in a backyard nearby, destroying the plane and killing himself.

They're amazing airplanes. And the sound..."Whistling Death" indeed.

}:-)4

[taildragger]

I think that was Howard Pardue. Texas Oilman and Warbird Owner/Pilot extraordinare if my memory is correct. I got to see him fly in the early 90's at Reno.

Reno is must attend for those serious airplane junkies.

[mylife]

Bummer

[bill1952]

Personally, I wouldn't want to be the A&P...

[Publius6961]

Impressive control under pressure...

[Eye of Unk]

Back in the early 90's I went to the Reno Air Races, there was a revolutionary new design of an Unlimited Class racer thar was similar to the old twin boom P-38, it was called the Pond Racer, I had a Pit Pass so I was able to get up close pics of it and the pilot. This plane was really fast, it was supposed to be able to beat anything else currently flyinf with a propeller.

Sadly I also heard him declare an emergency on my scanner and he did not bail out but augered into the ground away from the grandstand, it deeply affected me for awhile.

[RunningWolf]

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I know he was getting the plane to a better place over the ground, but those things are hard to get out of. If it had got into a uncontained roll or spin he would have went in with it most likely.

[tubebender]

How bazaar. My wife is on the phone with her friend, the widow of a WWII F4 pilot...

[GBA]

I was there for that. It's something I'll never forget and about the last thing I thought I'd ever see. I was glad that he got out and it's nice to see he's racing at Reno.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Way old news.Budweiser corsair i think. Reno races ruin alot of engines.Merlins are damned expensive these days.Round motors are not cheap at all.

[narby]

Kevin broke his neck (I think it was) bailing out. I believe he did the Papi Boyington trick of unbuckling everything, standing on the stick to get negative G, and pulling the rip cord, all at the same time. The parachute was already opening as he came out of the cockpit, and his head hit the vertical stablizer as the chute riped him past. Thank goodness for helmets. The high speed opening ripped a few panels out of the parachute, but it held.

I asked him afterward, when he was running around Chino all bandaged up, why he didn't go down to one of the skydive places and do one jump, just to see how it works. He said he'd thought about it, but never got around to it.

[crghill]

Welcome Mr. Pilot to the Catepillar club....amazing video!