Whats the aircraft featured in the movie "Brotherhood"?

danielle0309 SG

Did anyone notice? Anyone noe the model and make of the a/c? Shld be american right? Its sooo gorgeous!!

SibeiSuayKia SG

P-51 mustang?

Tango1 SG

It's a Chance Vought F-4U Corsair....late WWII fighter aircraft. Served in Korea as a fighter-bomber...well, at least more for bombing than dogfighting.... Mr. Green

I-like-flings(m) SG

danielle0309 SG

Yeah man! This is the one (F-4U Corsair, it is). Is it available in the model shops here?

Obersturmfuhrer SG

Yes it is, but you really have to dig a bit. I've sold a couple before.

snk86 SG

negative guys. i readed the subtitles…those use in the movies are F-86 sabres….

I_am_PeTe_Parker SG

First picture = Mustang P-51
Second picture = Thunderbolt P-47
Third picture = Corsair

Mustangs and corsairs were used in the Korean war but not Thunderbolt's.

I_am_PeTe_Parker SG

Sabres are jet planes. Have not seen the movie yet but I guess Danielle0309 could not have possibly mistaken a corsair for a jet plane like the sabres.
Beside Sabres are ugly. The Vought Corsairs F4U-4 are beauties.
Must go see the movie than.

danielle0309 SG

I'm pretty positive its the corsairs, the main characteristics for ID being the slight bent of the wings and the blade-prop on the nose (watever u call tt). Sabres have jets beneath the wings and no blade-prop. (hmm, i thot the subtitles only displayed smtg like "Air attack!! Air attack!" in tt scene Razz )

I-like-flings(m) SG

dun look like it leh.....

panzerjager SG

So the Koreans were like Black Sheep Squadron in the movie....? The old 70s series about US Pacific fleet land-based fighter aces against the Japs. Funny thing in that show was that the Yankees traded 'friendly' taunts with the Jap pilots over common radio frequency, in English! before they proceed to dogfight. 'Friendly' as in the same attitude between drunken sailors/airmen (on the same side) brawling over beer-fight in club

Anyway the Thunderbolts were indeed the understated ultimate fighters of WW2, everyone just seem to like the Mustang, Spitfire etc just because of the elitism they won through air-air combat. The real hard and dangerous fight was just above ground level and that's where the Thunderbolt was at home, among Typhoon, Schturmmovik, Mosquito, Beau-fighter etc

sgFish SG

agreed Mr. Green

wd1 SG

yes, the man on the radio mentioned F-86 Sabres, but what actually did the spectacular bombing and strafing runs were F4U Corsairs. great observation, i did'nt notice the discrepancy myself in the show.

there MAY have indeed been a sequence where F-86s did a flypast or a bomb run though. i seem to have some vague memories of these, although i know my memory likes to play tricks on me....

just bear in mind that movie directors VERY OFTEN do not get their military-related details right. i must say though that the movie was otherwise surprisingly accurate in terms of the military equipment used....

spencer99 SG

The F86 has a single jet engine.

Those things under the wings are drop-tanks not jets!

spencer99 SG

I don't really like the show in the military sense ... so unrealistic...

At the last scene, the water-cooled MMG seems so light.

danielle0309 SG

Oops, really very paiseh.. thx

ferret69 SG

The part where the Marine pilots taunted the Japs really did happen if you read the historical books. It went something like Pappy Boyington on the radio saying to the effect "Come on up you yellow bastards!" whilst flying over a Jap base with the Jap fighters still on the ground and the Jap replied back "Why don't you come down Major Boyington" all in plain English. Radio security is a funny thing as even my friend's father has described how during the Konfrontasi time, each side was listening in to each other's tactical radio messages (Malay regiment versus Indonesian soldiers).

There was one time when Saburo Sakai, Jap ace, did aerial aerobatics over an American airbase with another Jap pilot.

And yes I agree Thunderbolts were one of the most understated aircraft. I guess ugly aircraft like the Jug didn't get as much credit as clean lines Mustangs even though they were used extremely well by the Allied European Theatre aces. Still in the Pacific Theatre, it was the P-38 Lightnings which did major gruntwork. Corsairs are still my favourite WW2 fighter next to the Focke-Wulf 190 Doras.

One question, were Spads already available and deployed during the Korean conflict (the piston engine aircraft you almost always see in Vietnam war flicks)?

I_am_PeTe_Parker SG

The first thing that came to mind when SPAD are mention is WW1 biplane.
But I guest you are actually refering to the Douglas Skyraider A-1 which is sometimes nicknamed SPAD. Yes, I believe the skyraider were used during the Korean war.

ferret69 SG

My bad. Yes I was referring to the Doug Skyraider an ugly (at least to me) but very effective plane.

Off-topic, think I'll be leaving military nuts forums since the current posts have been, to my mind, a lot of pure drivel actually. What happened to all the nice intelligent posters whom always had interesting things to say and definitely almost always learnt something new (and some hilarious stuff). It seems as if it's degenerating to the "whose imaginary long dong is bigger" arguments again.

There's also more NS stuff going around which isn't exactly what I thot military nuts was about. I ORDed in '96 so forgive me if all this whining about NS stuff is tiresome since I've heard it all before and did it myself almost a decade ago. I'm going back to the NNTP newsgroups and some other forums.