Form doesn't always follow function when it comes to fighter jets. Even planes that look like spaceships and feature the latest technology can have too much hope invested in them far too quickly. Such ...

The Oldsmobile Cutlass began life as a compact car in 1961, before graduating to a mid-sized offering in 1964. The model name ...

Introduced for the 1961 model year, the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the top trim level for the unibody F-85 compact. There is some debate about the origin of the Cutlass name, which was taken either from ...

The Vought F7U Cutlass carrier-based jet fighter was one of the most unusual designs ever produced for the United States Navy ...

Rex Beisel designed the legendary F4U Corsair fighter, a World War II piston heavyweight that served through the Korea conflict and was “one of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ finest fighters,” ...

The “Gutless Cutless” earned its nickname primarily from its underpowered engines. A Vought F7U-3 in May 1953. Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum In November 1951, at Patuxent River Naval Air ...

For every plane design like the F-14 Tomcat or the P-51 Mustang that pilots adored flying, there are undoubtedly several planes that don't earn a good reputation. One of those planes was the Vought ...

Even though the Cutlass incorporated elements from some of Nazi Germany’s most advanced airplane designs, it was one of the Navy’s most dangerous planes to fly. Aircraft in the post-World War II era ...

The Chance Vought F7U Cutlass was ahead of its time In 1948 when it first flew it could hardly have been more exotic or state of the art a tail less fighter to be powered by two afterburning jet ...