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The Navy entered into a letter of intent on 3 March 1941, received Vought's production proposal on 2 April, and awarded Vought a contract for 584 F4U-1 fighters, which were given the name "Corsair" – inherited from the firm's late-1920s Vought O2U naval biplane scout, which first bore the name – on 30 June of the same year. The first ...
A Vought F4U-1D Corsair assigned to the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), China Lake, California (US), in 1945. Promoted to Chief Engineer at Vought, Beisel headed up the design team that produced the F4U Corsair, the first fighter aircraft to exceed a speed of 400 mph in level flight with a full military load. Beisel’s ingenious design ...
02465 -National Naval Aviation Museum The only surviving birdcage Corsair in the world, it crashed into Lake Michigan within two months of its delivery while operating from USS Wolverine. It was recovered in 2010 and restored by the museum and placed in a hanging display in the World War II gallery.
English: U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsairs of Bombing Fighting Squadron 74 (VBF-74) "Cavaliers" launch from the newly commissioned aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVB-41). VBF-74 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 74 (CVBG-74) aboard the Midway for her shakedown cruise to the Caribbean from 7 November 1945 to 2 January 1946.
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 ...
English: U.S. Navy Ensign Jesse L. Brown in the cockpit of a Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32), in 1950. He was the first African-American to be trained by the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, and such, became the first African-American naval aviator to see combat and the first to be killed (on 4 December 1950).
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.
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 engine.