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Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered ...
Generation 4.5 fighter jets are different than 5th-gen fighters because they weren't built with 5th-gen technology. Instead, ...
Introducing the F4U Corsair. In 1938, the U.S. Navy issued a request for proposal (RFP) for a single-engined fighter capable of hitting high speeds, a minimum stalling speed below 70 miles per ...
Tulsa Oilman Brings Classic 'Corsair' Fighter Plane To Town When you ask Trent Latshaw what's the best thing about owning an F4U, he will struggle to put his answer into words.  ...
The aircraft was widely used by the Marines in the 1940s and '50s ... A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits ...
The Corsair, mounted on a pedestal at the airport in 1971, was removed in 2008 because of... ‘Labor of love’ restoration brings historic fighter plane back to Sikorsky in Stratford ...
A Vought F4U Corsair will show how its sleek and curving wings — built to fold and fit inside U.S. Navy aircraft carriers — used to shoot out and soar over the Pacific Ocean.
The fighter-bomber being moved, a Corsair on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla., would have gone in and out easily, as aircraft did during World War II.