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.

"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 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.

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Joel Abramson, a 101-year-old World War II fighter pilot now living at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, signs his name Saturday on a 1941 Boeing Stearman plane owned by Garrett Fleishman of Oxford at ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — In our modern warfare arsenal we have fighter planes that soar through the sky at speeds ... She was the ...