The F4U Corsair is one of the most iconic and powerful aircraft ever built, renowned for its role in World War II and its ...

Top Vought F4U Corsair Milestones. The prototype XF4U-1 became the first single-engine U.S. fighter to fly faster than 400 ...

Despite more hair-raising attempts to make the Corsair carrier-ready, conducted by Navy squadrons VF-12 and VF-17, most of the original aircraft found a home in Marine Corps combat squadrons ...

As of V-J Day, September 2, 1945, the Navy credited Corsair pilots with destroying 2,140 enemy aircraft in aerial combat. The Navy and Marines lost 189 F4Us in combat and 1,435 Corsairs in non-combat ...

Developed to operate from aircraft carriers, the Corsair was mass produced and entered service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps on December 28 th, 1942, as war in the Pacific Theater was ...

Originally, the VAL was a 1962 joint service program for the development of an advanced light attack aircraft involving USAF, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

The numbers illustrate the Corsair's story of dominance over the Imperial Japanese Navy's aircraft. Over the course of the war, the Corsair down a total of 2,140 aircraft for an absolutely mind ...

It shows U.S. Navy A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 157495) belonging to VA-56 “Champions” bursting into flames after a ramp strike on 21 August 1984. The pilot, Lt. Thomas R. Doyle, 24, was killed in ...

Navy aircraft carriers, and the airwings they bring with them, have projected US power around the world for decades. That airwing has evolved, and its pilots have flown some of the most advanced ...

As of V-J Day, September 2, 1945, the Navy credited Corsair pilots with destroying 2,140 enemy aircraft in aerial combat. The Navy and Marines lost 189 F4Us in combat and 1,435 Corsairs in non-combat ...