More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...
The airplanes of the Second World War have been incredible machines. Designed and built on fast-forward to meet the ever-changing requirements of combat situations, they all, almost without exception, ...
Enclosed in its own hanger at the Bamberg County Airport is one of the U.S.'s greatest fighter planes, a 1945 Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair. One of the few to survive foreign wars, as well as the hungry ...
In the cockpit of an F4U-4 Corsair fighter, probably in late 1950, Ensign Jesse L. Brown was the first African-American to complete Navy flight training and the first African-American naval aviator in ...
It was up to supervising sound editors Will Files and Matt Yocum and dialogue and ADR supervisor Eliza Zebert to build the soundscape for Korean War-set “Devotion,” a story that centers on the ...
Medal of Honor receipient Thomas Hudner and family look on as four Navy F-18s — one of which bears Hudners name — landed at Hanscom Air Force Base for a ceremony in his honor. (U.S. Air Force) Snow ...
While researching imagery for a feature article on Corsairs, Air & Space staffers located a dramatic photo of a doomed F4U-4 Corsair skidding toward the water during a failed carrier landing. A ...