Top Vought F4U Corsair Milestones. The prototype XF4U-1 became the first single-engine U.S. fighter to fly faster than 400 mph by flying at an average speed of 405 mph from Stratford to Hartford ...

The Corsair was a veritable hotrod of a fighter plane, and with a top speed of 446 miles per hour, it was briefly the fastest plane in the U.S. arsenal.

The F4U was designed for operations from an aircraft carrier without the need of very long range. The P-51, especially after being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, was the long-range ...

In production longer than any other U.S. fighter to see service in World War II, Vought, Goodyear, and Brewster built a total of 12,582 F4Us. The United States Navy donated an F4U-1D to the National ...

A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber goes on display at USS Midway Museum The aircraft was widely used by the Marines in the 1940s and '50s.

During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft as the most capable aircraft in the conflict. This belief was based on more than a feeling; ...

Aviation legend Gerry Beck spent 16 years restoring the Vought F4U Corsair. Just $2 for 6 months ... Beck died in 2007 when the P-51 Mustang fighter plane he built and was flying collided on ...

Air show announcer and producer Lunar Sawyer is ready to see her husband take to the sky in “Wild Blue,” the “little RV-8A ...

An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, ... During this time, it had an 11-to-1 victory ratio over enemy aircraft in the Pacific Theater.

A World War II F4U-1 Corsair fighter plane was recovered from Lake Michigan Monday by A&T Recovery at Larsen Marine at Waukegan Harbor. The Corsair, piloted by Ensign Carl Harold Johnson, ...

In production longer than any other U.S. fighter to see service in World War II, Vought, Goodyear, and Brewster built a total of 12,582 F4Us. The United States Navy donated an F4U-1D to the National ...