Get out of your mesh, I hope you're doing fantastic. And this is the good gear supercorp. Basically F2G is the designation for the aircraft. It was supposed to be a carrier based aircraft for the United States Navy and well ended up being a pretty famous air racer which is utterly fantastic to think. Although a lot of warbirds ended up in that kind of category at the end of the war. In 1945 being sold a surplus, what else do you do with your time? Red Bull air racing of course. Now there were three different variants. There was a XF2G which a prototype was one converted from a standard FG-1 Corsair. There was another one which was a land-based variant which was the G1 with 418 ordered five were built and the order was cancelled. And then there was the F2G which is a carrier based variant which 10 ordered and they built five and the order was cancelled. There's one aircraft today that's still on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and there is the air were the F2G-1 which is basically known as Race 57. She's an air racer and has an extensive history on its own with the Reno Air Racers. And it was featured in the movie Thunder Over Reno and the aircraft was brought in February 2017 by Stuart Walton and is based out of Bentonville, Kansas. Now it was intended as a low altitude intercept to equip with a 28 cylinder radial but again I don't think it really would serve this role particularly effective. The massive honkour of an engine actually does decrease visibility however they did put a new all-round vision bubble type canopy on the top so it looks kind of off. You have a look at the side profile. There's a bunch of aircraft that we're going to go have a look at now. And I just think that this thing is rather interesting in itself. Right here it is just looking just briefly because two tiny Tim's struck to the bottom of it. I will be using those during the mission but as you can see I'm sort of checking out the cockpit here. It just looks really strange. For a course there you expect the Garwings which it has but not the exact along nose that this particular aircraft has either. I'd be curious to know what the actual arm is so glossing over the Wikipedia page it does say that the thing is equipped with 450 caliber 12.7 M2 machine guns with 400 rounds again and makes sense considering there is 1800 rounds there. There are rocket provisions for rockets as you can see a tiny Tim's underneath and it does say up to 1600 pounds or 725 kilograms worth of bombs but again interesting stuff. And the max power plant well it's a wasp major 28 cylinder radial engine with 3000 horsepower or 2,200 kilowatts. As you can see here we're coming in to engage these J6 Ks and this is sort of the first test you get with I guess playing the vehicle in an intercept roll. The guns are a little bit fiddly but my gun dining distance is way the hell off. That's one of my AOs launches a tiny Tim. As you can see it's just clean up Judy down here. This is basically what the whole time mission is about. Now dynamic campaign is a weird sort of staged base place where you can do and complete certain objectives to win a campaign or a war. I have no idea where that tiny Tim went. I fired the other one too late and that they've just gone. Oh well we're not necessarily going to get those back we'll just stick to our good old gun say. Now interesting Wikipedia lists this aircraft of comparable role or configuration and error and the top of the list is the CAC 15. Can I get the CAC 15 kangaroo please? All the Curtis XP 62 which is a prototype single engine intercept aircraft which looks absolutely chunky but again I'll put pictures up of these in the video you'll be able to see them. Now we do know that this thing sits on a battery rating of 6.7 and it can be attained in the battle pass way of life. However that being said it's well it's going to be an interesting one to get in her shave considering if we such a high level in order to get it. I doubt there will be many people that have access to this particular aircraft at least initially. Being that it is the free vehicle that you get from participating in the battle pass without having to purchase one I suppose that's what you get in hindsight. I'm going to say the guns are quite nice and the new sparkle effects alright but I do find that these guns do spark a little bit especially on certain wing surfaces. So I'm going to hit there there we go knocked out the pilot and this is just what we're doing we're just cleaning up J6s. I'm sort of testing this aircraft you know move new ability here. I think the engine adds quite a bit of weight and there's a lot of ammo oh no but anyway this the engine development for the Corsair is quite interesting because obviously there's so many different versions of the Corsair. Again it imprifies the low altitude version of the classic F4U Corsair the Navy Fodder the US Navy used. And obviously this engine is particularly interesting because the wash major the 28 cylinder is the same engine that was used on the Hughes H4 Hercules the B50 Superfortress the strategic bomber and the B36. So adding this in game does not mean we're going to get B36 and B50 later on I highly doubted. The classic bombers of War Thunder is another subject and another video that I'd like to talk about all together because obviously we're heading in that direction. And with the advent of the new devlog the other day where we get the A7 it's going to be particularly interesting to see. Now what I would like to have happen is that it goes and implements the skins for this thing. If you could if the contact craters or somebody it actually makes some useful skins it could be put up on the marketplace you know to celebrate the fact that this is an air racing aircraft just like the C Fury and so many other warbirds of that comparable era. And it'd be a nice nod to the air racing history of this particular vehicle is most famous for. Now the production of the F2G has a teardrop canopy in place of the original Corsair cockpit and is similar to that of the P-47s cockpit. The other standard thing to note here is the vertical stabilizer of the F2G is 12 inches taller than on the standard Corsair and has an auxiliary rudder to counteract the massive engine torque that this monster has. The rate of climb was such that it actually outclamed the most jet fighters of that compatible time and with a rate of you know 7000 feet per minute which was twice the rate of climb of a stand in Corsair I think this would be an interesting vehicle that doesn't necessarily climb particularly well from testing in this particular mission and replaying it a few times. I don't think it does. I don't think it suits that particular playstyle. I think it's a good aircraft I can be wrong but I don't think it's represented well enough in water at current time. Unfortunately for the development of the actual aircraft IRL by the end of the war in August 1945 only five of the aircraft were ever completed and both models revealed you know in testing the deficiency in lateral control at his surface speed which were basically bars for further development in what Corsair and good you would actually like to do. In addition the F8 Bearcat basically promised more than what the F2G could do while still powered with the original Corsair's double-wast power plant which was already in production I think the F2G really redundant. You know that's further production of the F2G was really cancelled and it is quite a sad thing to say. Now the internal fuel capacity was increased greatly over the F2G1 and all provisions were provided to carry two droplet-wool external tanks but the Navy wasn't happy with that either as a proposed alternative. So yes this is probably a good way to introduce a vehicle to War Thunder. Although the battle power system regardless of how you take it, you're positive or negative this thing is stage I think it's like stage 50 or something along those lines. Hold on let me just double check for you. It is incredibly high up there I know that much considering the Matilero's at stage 4, the boat is at stage 38, it is stage 50. And as far as we all know is it's 6.7 and ultra rare but then again who knows and apparently we can sell them on a marketplace two later on. Great that's another thing that we have to worry about. But apparently this thing is featured in a border warplanes as well so you can get that one if you care about border warplanes I certainly don't. It also appears in the game aces of Pacific 1946 and was basically designed as the premier fast chemicals interceptor. It's greatest asset was incredible crime and rate which shall have the 30,000 feet in four minutes according to that particular video game at least. Looking around this seems to be several other vehicles video games which is a part of but it's nice to see the thing in War Thunder at least as a nod to I guess its history. But poking a bit back at the battle pass system I've just discovered that there is the race camouflage in the foals. Did you get it at a lateral war stage down the line? In fact it's for number 54 which is free and it's basically a racing camouflage for the F2G dash one. So I guess I just ate my own words. Again it's an interesting and novel aircraft. I don't see that it would be particularly useful even at 6.7. The bear cat would be infinitely better even then you... I don't see very many bear cats out about anymore. Some of the old days were super prop fighters were the way to go. Gryffin spits, your furies, your F8Fs, your Klay 100s etc etc. But any is what it is. The old days are gone now. It's now filled with premium exclusive aircraft like you know, Harriers and F89s and so on and so forth. But I guess playing the game for a really long time you see a change in development. I promise that's good or bad I don't necessarily know I wouldn't be able to tell you but I've been playing this game for a very bloody long time. It's nice to see another edition even if it is under a battle pass system. But that's just my opinion. Alright my name is Ash. Thank you very much for watching and I'll catch you in the next one. Cheerio!