Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Vought Corsair is the name of several former aircraft of the US Navy: Vought O2U Corsair, a biplane scout and observation aircraft; Vought O4U Corsair, a biplane scout and observation aircraft prototype; Vought SBU Corsair, a biplane dive bomber aircraft; Vought F4U Corsair, a monoplane shipborne fighter/dive bomber aircraft
English: A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-1A Corsair (BuNo 55995) of Fighting Squadron 17 (VF-17) "Jolly Rogers" in the Southwest Pacific, in flight over Bougainville. This plane was the second Corsair flown by ace Ira C. Kepford. The photo was possibly taken over Bougainville in early March 1944, at the end of VF-17's Solomons combat tour, although the ...
The Vought F4U Corsair fighter-bomber introduced in 1942 had almost twice the horsepower of the Wildcat, was faster, had greater range, faster rate of climb, and was capable of carrying a 4,000 lb total load of bombs and High Velocity Aircraft Rockets. It was judged to be relatively difficult to land on a carrier, however, and was initially ...
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.
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 ...
4 Specifications (W.A.R. F4U Corsair) 5 Notes. 6 ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... The W.A.R. F4U Corsair is a 50% scale homebuilt replica of the Chance ...
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 ...