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The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War.Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A.
F4U-1D 50375 coded 56 at the NASM- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. F4U-4 97264 coded B 210 of VF-192 owned by Dan Friedkin. F2G-1 88458 coded 57. F4U-4 97369 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. F4U-5N 124692 coded NP 5 of the Collings Foundation. F4U-4 97142 coded WR 18 at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
The R-2800 powered several types of fighters and medium bombers during the war, including the US Navy's Vought F4U Corsair, with the XF4U-1 first prototype Corsair becoming the first airframe to fly (as originally designed) with the Double Wasp [7] in its XR-2800-4 prototype version on May 29, 1940, [8] and the first single-engine American ...
1945. Developed from. Vought F4U Corsair. The Goodyear F2G Corsair, often referred to as the " Super Corsair ", is a development by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of the Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft. The F2G was intended as a low-altitude interceptor and was equipped with a 28-cylinder, four-row Pratt & Whitney R-4360 air-cooled radial ...
The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). The A-7 was developed during the early 1960s as replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was derived from the Vought F-8 Crusader; in comparison with the F-8, the A-7 is both smaller and ...
It was not until 1943 that more advanced naval fighters capable of taking on the Zero on more even terms, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair, reached the South Pacific theater. F4F-4s on Guadalcanal, 1942. The Japanese ace SaburÅ Sakai described the Wildcat's capacity to absorb damage:
Vought began work on the V-326 in 1941 at the request of Pratt & Whitney. Designed as a test bed for the R-4360 Wasp Major radial engine, the aircraft was based on the XTBU-1 Sea Wolf and used components from the F4U Corsair. The V-326 was a low-wing monoplane with a pressurized two-seat cockpit. Its main landing gear rotated 90 degrees and ...
Marine Fighting Squadron 422 (VMF-422) was a Vought F4U Corsair squadron in the United States Marine Corps.The squadron, also known as the "Flying Buccaneers", fought in World War II but is perhaps best known for its role in the worst accident in naval aviation history when 22 of the squadron's 23 aircraft were lost flying through a typhoon on 25 January 1944.