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Whistling Death: Vought F4U-4 Corsair

The Vought F4U-4 Corsair is one of the most iconic aircraft in history. It remained in production for 11 years, longer than any other American fighter. It was also the last piston-engined fighter in ...
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 ...
A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. The Midway is the latest in a series of ...
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, ...
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 ...
Flying since the mid-1970s as a private pilot, Jim Tobul of Bamberg began in earnest doing his part to keep the military service of warbirds, their courageous pilots and their legacy alive by joining ...
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 ...
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 ...