Anyone fly S3 from Warbirds?

[Krusty]

Haven't seen videos of p51s or F4u's but heard the F4u usually makes a sound in the dive?

If recorded from the ground, they all do. But that's because of doppler effect (it gets louder as it gets closer) and not necessarily from the engine making more noise.


You'd have to hear it from the cockpit, instead of the ground.

[Baumer]

Krusty,
The corsair earned it's Japanese's nickname "whistling death" from the fact that in a dive (with the oil cooler door's open) it produced a loud whistle. This is not related to any Doppler effect but from the air moving through the oil coolers in the wing roots.

[fudgums]

Krusty,
The corsair earned it's Japanese's nickname "whistling death" from the fact that in a dive (with the oil cooler door's open) it produced a loud whistle. This is not related to any Doppler effect but from the air moving through the oil coolers in the wing roots.

yea its pretty bad bellybutton sound IMO

[Krusty]

Krusty,
The corsair earned it's Japanese's nickname "whistling death" from the fact that in a dive (with the oil cooler door's open) it produced a loud whistle. This is not related to any Doppler effect but from the air moving through the oil coolers in the wing roots.

But that's a steady sound, not so much the prop over-revving in a dive, as was the comment.