The Vought F4U Corsair, one of the best fighter planes during World War II, is being restored for an exhibit at the Intrepid Museum in New York City.

Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World ...

The Vought F4U Corsair, one of the best fighter planes during World War II, is being restored for an exhibit at the Intrepid Museum in New York City.

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The U.S. Navy was intrigued by the idea of a fighter that could operate from ships other than massive aircraft carriers ... The subsequent addition of F4U Corsair propellers and an ejection ...

The wreckage can be seen at low tide on Lough Foyle As the tide ebbs, the remains of a World War Two plane can be seen on Lough Foyle. The Vought Corsair, an American fighter aircraft, crashed ...

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

His greatest accomplishment though was serving in the Navy during World War II. He makes it clear he never served in combat. ...

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 ...

WE WERE WELL TRAINED FLYING THAT AIRPLANE, AND I HAD WE HAD THE BEST FIGHTER PLANE THAT WELL, THE ARMY HAD A GREAT PLANE, TOO, A P-51, BUT THE NAVY CORSAIR, THE ONE I FLEW WAS EXCELLENT.

Those planes are now historical relics ... Corsairs had to overcome early challenges before being recognized as one of the ...