"The F4U (Navy Corsair) is the best damned fighter plane in the world," Paine said. "One took two Zeros off my tail." On April 8, 1943, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison visited the Goodyear plant in Akron.

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If one were to claim that their new aircraft design utilized two 80 hp ... The subsequent addition of F4U Corsair propellers and an ejection seat resulted in a max takeoff weight of nearly 19,000 ...

“Whoa there, Chris,” I can already hear fans of various other WWII fighter planes admonishing me ... others can make well-reason arguments for the F4U Corsair (Black Sheep Squadron ...

The term “Birdcage” refers to early models of the Corsair fighter aircraft, distinguished by ... an FG-1D BuNo 92246 and an ...

The Vought Corsair, an American fighter aircraft, crashed into Lough Foyle ... Geraghty photographed the wreckage in 2017 The Vought F4U Corsair was one of the most successful fighters of the ...

Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

Denny promised he would build another plane for the boy ... For example, the fourth (4) fighter (F) delivered to the Navy built by Vought (U) was the F4U Corsair. The first patrol bomber (PB ...

But Jim Tobul of Jackson Hole, Wyo., who grew up in Wexford, was unable to take off in his 1945 F4U Corsair fighter plane. “I need about 2,000 feet of clearance under the clouds to perform ...

The iconic Blue Angels and other military aircraft were on display with thousands in attendance on the first day of the Wings ...

The Lightning II is part of the fifth generation of fighter aircraft, incorporating the newest stealth technology and avionics Powered by the Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan engine ...

U.S. treaty ally Japan said it scrambled fighter aircraft on Monday to intercept Chinese military planes and at least one spy drone operating near its southwestern islands. The Joint Staff Office ...