YP-59A and Ram Jet Assisted F4U …

[WIX_Archive]

Flight testing at Pax River MD 1944


https://youtu.be/eXt_sa42Nbw

Naval Photographic Center film #1033.
National Archives description:

1. MS F4U with rocket attachment is wheeled out.
2. MS P-59 wheeled out.
3. MS Pilot gets in P-59. SCU Jet exhaust spits flame.
4. LS P-59 takes off, in flight, lands-SV.
5. MS F4U with rocket, warms up, taxis, in flight, lands, taxis-SV.
6. AVL F4U in flight. MS P-59 in hangar.
7. SCU F4U with rocket attachment.
8. GV F4U, pilot in cockpit.

National Archives Identifier: 75799

Last edited by Mark Allen M on Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[airnutz]

Looks like a jet engine on the F4U. Nice vid.

[Mark Allen M]

Looks like a jet engine on the F4U. Nice vid.

Agreed

[old iron]

The "jet" on the F4U looks to be a fairly small diameter. Maybe a pulse-jet, maybe something else?

[Malo 1]

Looks more like Ramjet.

[Duggy009]

"The first flight test WE19B under a Goodyear FG-1 Corsair airplane. The WE19B was a improved version of the first engine, the WE19B (later known as the J30) was flight tested in January of 1944 as a booster unit on a Chance Vought Corsair FG-1 fighter jet. The engine delivered 1365 pounds thrust and weighed 731 pounds."

[Dan Jones]

I was wondering if that was Boone Guyton in the F4U, but it doesn’t look like him.

[JOMiller]

I'm interested in the P59 pilot. Who is he, any ideas?

Last edited by JOMiller on Sun Jul 11, 2021 9:25 am, edited 1 time in total.

[marine air]

I think the Corsair is a Chance Vought F4U-1A. Notice the little bubble on the top of the front frame of the otherwise "birdcage" canopy.