The last dogfight to feature the hulking piston engines of WWII didn't take place during the Korean or Vietnam Wars. High above Central America the age of prop driven fighters finally drew to a close in 1969.
During a brief but fierce conflict known as the 100 Hour War, expert pilots of Honduras decisively beat the hastily assembled air forces of El Salvador. As fate would have it, the fighters involved would be none other than the two most iconic American fighters of the Second World War: the F4U Corsair and the P-51 Mustang.
You can read a detailed account here at Air And Space Magazine.
Same.
But can't we (as in, the entire SimplePlanes community) just forget that the German Corsair drama ever happened?
@asteroidbook345
@CobraHueyIndustries Thanks dude
@TheTomatoLover F/A-18 Hornet?
@CobraHueyIndustries well, thanks ! I hope you enjoyed our planes !
Joining SimplePlanes, and seeing you guys building stuff. I think I downloaded a couple of your things@WarHawk95
The times where folding wing existed, Ah good times.
@WarshipDude The Dragon was a set of modified DC-3's, but yeah, same airframe.
@CobraHueyIndustries Yeah, what @WarHawk95 said.
@Alta2809 That's very cool!
@CobraHueyIndustries thanks dude ! But what memories ?
@F104Deathtrap i know the gooney bird, another nickname for the Dragon,
I've seen one of the corsiar's which fought in this war, It's called Triple India and it is a F4U-5N model of the corsair, it's the only flying corsair in Australia at the moment.
And I’ve know you and @WarHawk95 for awhile now @F104Deathtrap you guys give me good memories of last year
Lol. I love your name! @F104Deathtrap
@F104Deathtrap yep, the Mustangs were Cavalier F-51Ds, modified by a private American company into ground attackers with bombs, rockets and wing tip tanks if I remember correctly.
@WarHawk95 There's a brief rundown of the specific models in the article, but you're right. The P-51's involved were specialized for ground attack, and their pilots were not very experienced, unfortunately.
Some of the Corsairs were former french F4U-7 I think, and the rest was american F4U-5
@asteroidbook345 I've intentionally stayed uninformed about that event. In this case, I just happened to be reading about something that seemed so unbelievably interesting that I had to share it with someone. DC-3 Gooneybirds being used as make-shift bombers, Corsairs fighting Mustangs, Corsairs fighting Corsairs! It sounds like a novel or something.
@F104Deathtrap indeed, good sir
@metaphysicalgnome It kind of highlights the pointlessness of warfare in general, doesn't it?
it's dramatic when fighters made in the same countries fight against each other.