This event brings together the whole Shuttleworth experience for two full days of entertainment utilising the Aerodrome, ...

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

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

Aviation fans will be flying high with the news that the Coeur d’Alene Aviation Air Show and Expo is coming to Pappy ...

Aviation museums preserve the stories and breakthroughs that shaped flight. For many of us in the aviation world, they’re a lasting source of inspiration,” Matteo Atti, chief marketing officer at ...

In 2005, the Connecticut legislature unanimously declared the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, the renowned World War II fighter with an inverted gull wing, its Official State Aircraft. “It was a no ...

However, problems with the Corsair’s carrier landings led to the aircraft being overshadowed; the Grumman F6F Hellcat came to be regarded as America’s most dominant carrier-based fighter.

Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered together . Those are; the Vought F4U Corsair, and the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

Established in 1943, VF-17 was the first squadron to bear the insignia on their F4U Corsair fighter planes during WWII. Over the course of the war, the original Jolly Rogers scored over 150 kills ...

A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. The Midway is the latest in a series of ...

A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.

In the later stages of World War II, pilots in the fighter had an 11-to-1 victory ratio over enemy aircraft. Built in 1946, Midway’s new F4U flew in multiple U.S. Marine Corps squadrons until 1953.