The Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter and carrier-based bomber aircraft designed and manufactured by Chance Vought. The Corsair gained popularity soon after its introduction and received ...

On March 6, 1953, with the Korean War in full swing, the Essex-class USS Oriskany carrier's worst enemy was one of her own ...

In 2005, the Connecticut legislature unanimously declared the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, the renowned World ... are also digitizing some 20,000 blueprints with the help of modeling software ...

Among them was the Vought F4U Corsair, one of the most common fighters in the skies over the Pacific during the war years, and later above Korea. Having entered service in 1940 as a mostly carrier ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning ... the F4U became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of the conflict. The Corsair flew also during ...

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair that used to sit atop a pedestal in front of Sikorsky Memorial ...

The first fighter to fly with the 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine, the Vought F4U Corsair was also, not coincidentally, the first U.S. fighter to exceed 400 mph in level flight.

During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft as the most capable aircraft in the conflict. This belief was based on more than a feeling; by the end ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

But the real king of the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair. It was a veritable hotrod of a fighter plane, and with a top speed of 446 miles per hour, it was briefly the ...