More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...
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Corsair slice on the 14th fairway
On July 11, 1940, the only Vought Corsair prototype crash-landed on a Connecticut golf course, nearly ending the program ...
A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. The Midway is the latest in a series of ...
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How pilots chose between the Corsair and Hellcat in combat
Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered ...
On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...
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 hungry ...
Cheers and tears filled a hangar in west Dallas Saturday afternoon as hundreds of retirees from Vought Aircraft gathered to greet an old friend and see the rebirth of the company icon, and F4U Corsair ...
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 other ...
A&T Recovery workers at Larsen Marine with the WWII Corsair fighter airplane recovered from Lake Michigan today near Waukegan. (Lane Christiansen/for the Tribune) A specialized team recovered a World ...
(Columbia) Nov. 12, 2002 - A F4U Corsair World War II-era fighter plane participating in the Celebrate Freedom Festival crashed in a Midlands subdivision early Sunday afternoon. The FAA and National ...
On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...
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