A walk round of this historic Fleet Air arm carrier fighter for both enthusiasts and scale modellers.
My thanks go to Dave Morris (whose input was invaluable during this tour) and The Fleet Air Arm Museum without whose help and support this film would not have been possible.
Please support the Fleet Air Arm museum as they work to preserve this and other historic aircraft. Any donations will be gratefully accepted.
“Corsair KD431: Preserving the time capsule fighter revisited” is available from all bookshops and Amazon at around £14.
(Published by The History Press Ltd).
Visit the FAA museum, donate and see for yourself here:
https://www.nmrn.org.uk/visit-us/fleet-air-arm-museum
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good vid
I went here a few months back for 1st time since probably the early 1980’s and it was a great few hours covering a wide range of aircraft you can get up close to!
I’m in Bournemouth so not a massive trek and will head back again for a more in depth look and getting reference material
Highly recommended!
Awesome field trip 👍
Great details, tnx Zin
Zin, what an incredible tour of the exterior of KD431. Thank you for the closeup of the ignition harness – the "Pratt & Whitney" name was clearly evident on the forward-facing surface of the casting of the ignition harness conduit. The two items you referred to as the "magnetos" are actually the "distributors", while the "double magneto" is mounted at the very top of the reduction gear housing (between the distributors). In order to get the signals from the rotation of the magnetos to synchronize with the rotation of the distributors, there was some incredibly clever gearing inside the reduction gear housing. I'm eagerly awaiting the next video of (as you put it) "another part of the aircraft."
Wow, Zin! Really interesting walk-around of an awesome aeroplane. Couple of things I noticed: the tail fin appears to be somewhat shifted to the starboard side of the upper fuselage and the tread on the main wheels isn't exactly criss-crossed like using a saw. The tread pattern seems a little more fiendishly layed out.
Looking forward to you clambering up into the cockpit!