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 ...

Eighty-five years ago today, a warbird legend was born. On May 29, 1940, the prototype Chance Vought F4U Corsair roared to life over Bridgeport, Connecticut, marking the first flight of what would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enclosed in its own hanger at the Bamberg County Airport is one of the U.S.'s greatest fighter planes, a 1945 Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair. One of the few to survive foreign wars, as well as the ...

During World War II, the Chance Vought Division of United Aircraft ... sailing ships of the Barbary pirates, the F4U Corsair was the first U.S. fighter to fly faster than 400 mph.

A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped ... which was built by the Chance Vought Corporation in 1946. The plane was used by many Marine Corps squadrons until 1953.

In one sense, the almost 80-year-old Chance Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft has come home. The warbird, which served from the end of World War II through the Korean War, along with a host of ...

When you ask Trent Latshaw what's the best thing about owning an F4U, he will struggle to put his answer into words. Latshaw, 61, has owned the Vought F4U ... horsepower Corsair is a real gas ...

One of those planes was the Vought F7U Cutlass ... the engineer responsible for planes like the F4U Corsair, an aircraft renowned for its decisive actions against the air power of the Imperial ...