Eighty-five years ago today, a warbird legend was born. On May 29, 1940, the prototype Chance Vought F4U Corsair roared to ...

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 ...

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 ...

During this time, it had an 11-to-1 victory ratio over enemy aircraft in the Pacific Theater. (Check out the photos below). The F4U-4 Corsair ... by the Chance Vought Corporation in 1946, the ...

STRATFORD -- The blue Chance Vought F4U Corsair that graced the entrance to Sikorsky Memorial Airport should never return to its pedestal, according to those restoring the vintage aircraft ...

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair ... restoring the Corsair, but several other aircraft as ...

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 ...

When the cockpit hood was ... Above is an F4U-5N. The first fighter to fly with the 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine, the Vought F4U Corsair was also, not coincidentally, the first ...

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 ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to ... the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair. It was a veritable hotrod of a ...