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	Vought F4U Corsair - USA
		The Corsair's distinctive sound, which earned it among the Japanese the nick-name of "Whistling Death", partly because of the engine sound, that was caused by the wing-root inlets for engine air.
		As the Corsair was thought by the Navy to be unsuitable for carrier duty, it was given to the U.S. Marines for land-based operations where it earned an outstanding combat record.
		The F4U-3 was a bump in the evolution of the Corsair.
	www.aviation-history.com /vought/f4u.html (3651 words)

	F4U Corsair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a remarkable achievement for Vought, as carrier aircraft were necessarily heavier than their land-based counterparts to withstand the rigors of deck landings.
		At war's end, Corsairs were ashore on Okinawa combating the Kamikaze suicide pilots and flying from fleet and escort carriers.
		However by the time the Corsairs arrived, there were virtually no Japanese aircraft left in New Zealand's allocated sectors of the Southern Pacific, and despite the RNZAF Squadrons extending their operations to more northern islands, the Corsairs were primarily used for close support of American, Australian and New Zealand soldiers fighting the Japanese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/F4U_Corsair (956 words)

	F4U WWII Pacific theatre Corsair & Pappy Boyington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whatever the Corsair was, it was c'ertainly not a natural as a carrier-based combat aircraft, and that had, in the final analysis, been the task for which designer Rex B Beisel and his team had created the aircraft.
		Oh yes, the Corsair could be landed on a deck without undue difficulty by an experienced pilot in ideal conditions, but with pilots of average capability, really pitching decks and marginal weather conditions, attrition simply had to be of serious proportions.
		The Corsair II was, of course, a heavy aircraft for escort carrier work and reports soon began to reach us at Farnborough of a disturbing accident rate and of excessive wear on arrester wires.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /aircraft/WWII/corsair/cors_info/cors_info.htm (5595 words)

	Warbird Alley: Vought F4U Corsair
		Development of the Corsair began in 1938, when the US Navy issued a request for a new single-seat carrier-based fighter.
		The wing design was necessitated by the tall landing gear which was, in turn, necessitated by the huge propeller required to propel the plane at the desired high speeds.
		The Corsair served with the US Navy, US Marines, the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force (and later, the French Aeronavale), and quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter/bomber of the war.
	www.warbirdalley.com /f4u.htm (390 words)

	The Vought F4U Corsair
		The Corsair was a major player in air races for several years, until some serious accidents led to the effective suspension of air racing in the early 1950s.
		At its peak, the Corsair equipped 19 FAA squadrons.
		Vought engineers mixed the alcohol with peppermint oil so they could trace down where the fumes were seeping into the cockpit, and fixed the problem with better sealing.
	www.vectorsite.net /avf4u.html (6861 words)

	FlightSim.Com Review: Aeroplane Heaven Corsair
		The F6F didn't achieve the fame the Corsair did, but any readers who doubt the validity of the USN decision might reflect on the fact that successful though the plane was, the majority of Corsair losses did not result from enemy action.
		The only photo I have of a Corsair cockpit comes from an existing plane with many modern instruments, but the developers have assembled a collection of panels which allow all the early variants to be flown from essentially the same cockpit.
		The Corsair makes a very welcome addition to the small but growing hangar of first class warbirds available for Flight Simulator and the good news is that the next release from Aeroplane Heaven will be an updated version of their very popular P-47.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/review/ahcors/ahcors.htm (1983 words)

	Chance Vought Corsair F4U-5NL AJBS Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis GB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chance Vought Corsair F4U-5NL AJBS Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis GB The CORSAIR of CHANCE VOUGHT conceived by Rex Beisel, was one of the legend's airplanes of the Pacific war.
		She were equipped with a W-shape wing, in order to increase the visibility downwards, as well to reduce the length of the landing gear, (always too heavy and too cumbersome), and to reduce therefore the aerodynamic interference occurring to the wing/fuselage's liaison.
		The 1st test-flight of the XF4U-1 Corsair prototype, was in May 29,1940.
	www.ajbs.com /Anglais/MuseeGB/CorsairGBHtml/CorsairGB.htm (226 words)

	Chance-Vought Corsair II schemes for Fighter Squadron-SDOE
		The first to operate Corsairs from carriers, the Royal navy painted most of its machines in a grey/green pattern over sky undersides scheme, such as this typical European theatre example.
		It was one of the fighters providing cover for the Barracuda strikes on the German battleship Tirpitz during July and August of 1944.
		Later Royal Navy Corsairs were left painted in the U.S. Navy standard overall glossy sea blue.
	www.freewebs.com /rafh/rnash/corsair_ii/corsair_ii.html (208 words)

	Vought
		Vought had also moved into the area of missiles and launch vehicles.
		Vought, a company of 6,000 employees and annual sales of more than $1 billion, is still hitting some rough spots.
		At the end of October 2001, Vought announced that it would be cutting 1,200 jobs, or 20 percent of its work force, partly as a result of a downturn at Boeing due to lessening aircraft purchases resulting from a general downturn in the economy and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Vought/Aero23.htm (1749 words)

	NZFPM \|Vought F4U-1 Corsair
		Vought F4U-1 Corsair The Vought F4U-1 Corsair was one of the greatest combat aircraft in World War II.
		The RNZAF operated 424 Corsairs in the Pacific and New Zealand, losing 17 to enemy action and 150 in accidents, not an uncommonly high figure.
		It is the oldest flying Corsair in the world, spending the whole of it’s early life in the USA as a training aircraft (first in San Diego and then in Carolina).
	www.nzfpm.co.nz /article.asp?id=f4u1 (429 words)

	Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair
		Vought's Corsair was a fighter that could not be treated lightly.
		Ease of flight.The Corsair was much less a handful than the P-51 when flown into an accelerated stall, although it was by no means as forgiving as the F6F Hellcat.
		According to Jeffrey Ethell: "Of all World War II fighters, the Corsair was probably the finest in air-to-air combat for a balance of maneuverability and responsiveness.
	home.att.net /~historyzone/F4U-4.html (2204 words)

	Corsair82 Information
		Hearing about the WAR Aircraft Replica F4U Corsair I went to see one and found it to be way too small.
		So after waiting twenty years for someone to sell a serious Corsair, I decided the only way it would happen is if I did it myself.
		The Corsair82 uses the exact dimensions of the Corsair for all bulkheads scaled to 82%.
	www.corsair82.com /corsair/corsair.html (314 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair
		The Corsair appeared to be a superb fighting machine, but it was overengineered and thus hard to maintain.
		Originating in a 1938 Navy spec, when the need to replace the F2A and F4F could already be foreseen, the Vought Corsair was designed around an engine that also didn't exist yet: the Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, a monster 18 cylinder double radial, eventually capable of 2250 horsepower.
		The Corsair's fuselage had to be high in the air, to give the prop clearance, But ordinary, straight wings at that height would have implied long (and weak) landing gear.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/f4u_corsair.html (1298 words)

	Chance Vought F4U Corsair History and Specifications
		The "Vought B" was deemed to be the best one, with a merit figure of 86.4 on a scale from 0 to 100.
		In the Pacific the FAA Corsair also began to operate in April 1944, participating in an attack on Sabang, and later in the attack on oil refineries at Pelambang.
		In the RNZAF Corsair units, only the pilots and a small staff belonged to the squadron; aircraft and maintenance crew were grouped in a pool.
	www.f4ucorsair.com /tdata/history.htm (5458 words)

	Chance-Vought Corsair F4Uaircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		Corsair pilots claimed hundreds of enemy aircraft shot down in all theatres it operated.
		Above is a photograph of a Corsair preserved in Canada in honour of Lt 'Hammy' Gray VC and painted in his honour in the markings of the aircraft in which he was flying when lost whilst attacking a Japanese ship in August 1945.
		Corsairs in the British Navy during WW II - Contributed by Norman McKinstry, former Royal Navy FAA Corsair pilot with 1849 and 1850 Sqdn's during WW II.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Corsair.htm (2250 words)

	Cavanaugh Flight Museum: Goodyear/Chance-Vought FG-1C Corsair
		Corsairs also excelled in the ground attack role and were heavily employed as close air support aircraft during the Pacific island hopping campaign.
		As a testament to the plane's effectiveness, Japanese ground troops nicknamed the Corsair “the Whistling Death” (the plane's distinctive whistling was caused by airflow over the F4U's leading edge oil coolers).
		Corsairs were instrumental in the Marine's famous “advance in a different direction” from the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950.
	www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com /Corsair.htm (358 words)

	Vought F4U-1D Corsair
		The wing shape of the Corsair was not an accident nor was it done for aesthetics.
		Add to that the necessity for propeller clearance over rough landing fields, and the compression of the landing struts on hard carrier landings, the designers had two choices: 1) Landing gear that was very tall and very spindly on a "Normal" wing, or 2) Landing gear that was short and sturdy on a "Bent" wing.
		In 1952 the last of the Corsair line, designated the F4U-7, was delivered to the French under terms of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program making it the last piston powered fighter aircraft to be produced in the United States.
	www.craigcentral.com /models/f4u-1d (849 words)

	Vought F4U
		The early Corsair also had a vicious stall, powerful torque and propeller effects at slow speed, a short tail wheel strut, main gear struts that often bounced the airplane at touchdown, and cowl flap actuators that leaked oil onto the windshield.
		Meanwhile, the Marines on Guadalcanal took their Corsairs into combat and engaged the enemy for the first time on February 14, 1943, six months before Hellcat pilots on that battle-scared island first encountered enemy aircraft.
		Vought delivered this Corsair, Bureau of Aeronautics serial number 50375, to the Navy on April 26, 1944.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/voughtf4.htm (1268 words)

	Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1D Corsair
		Founded in 1917 by the student of the Wright brothers Chance Milton Vought and by Birdsey B. Lewis as Lewis and Vought Corporation.
		Vought remaining in the Stratford plant to concentrate on military airplanes and Sikorsky moved to a plant in Bridgeport to continue helicopter development and production.
		The Corsair was nicknamed "Ensign Eliminator"; the strong engine torque didn't make it an easy plane to land.
	www.sikorskyarchives.com /f4u.html (303 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair \| Aviation History\| F-4U Blueprints
		The Vought Corsair was the first U.S. single-engine fighter to exceed 400 m.p.h.
		If you’ve never seen a F4U Corsair before, your first glance at the outsized propeller and "bent" wings might leave you with the feeling that either this warbird was assembled from parts that didn’t match or it has met with some sort of disaster.
		The F4U Corsair was such a solid design it was used well after the war into the 1950's in a variety of roles.
	www.aviationshoppe.com /Vought-F4U-Corsair.html (932 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair Airplane Merchandise
		The Corsair airplane remained in production longer than any other US fighter of the period and is credited with a kill:loss ratio of 11:1 against the Japanese.
		The Corsair was definitely the longest-lived of the Navy fighters of WWII, its last combat sortie being in 1971 with El Salvador, and the F4U-4 was considered the ultimate Corsair.
		The Corsair F4U was and still is recognized as the fastest plane of its time.
	www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/bookstore/corsair.html (392 words)

	Aircraft: Vought F4U-4 Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Delaware, OH As the son of a Marine Corsair pilot, I will be hosting a reunion for VMF 422 in September, 2005 in Columbus, Ohio.
		Branford, CT On June 3-5, 2005, Corsairs Over Connecticut will be part of a larger Veterans' Salute in Bridgeport, CT. Events will include a recreation of the original Chance Vought Corsair plant in Bridgeport, complete with real Corsairs, authentic parts and engines, the shop equipment, and those giant props.
		The first version was the F4U1, and originally had a bird cage canopy, followed by a model with a similar canopy with a small buble for a mirror and later versions with blown canopys, at first with two braces and then with none.
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/vought/f4u-4.htm (620 words)

	F4U Corsair Movies, Videos and DVD Movies
		Vought F4U Corsair Airplane specs: It is a radial engine fighter known for both its bent wings and its unique sound giving it the name "whistling death".
		The corsair was 33' 4" long, 16' 1" high and had a wingspan of 41'.
		The corsair had a cruise speed of 182 mph, a max speed of 417 mph and a max climb rate of 2,890 ft/min.
	yellowairplane.com /Videos_Fighter_Aircraft/F-4U_Corsair_Movies.html (602 words)

	See F4U Corsair WW2 Training Film Live Online
		Unfortunately, the new Corsair experienced a plethora of teething problems that delayed its approval for US carriers for almost a year and a half.
		In 1943-44,the Brits were the first to successfully base the Corsair on carriers, developing an innovative curving landing approach, and the USN's VF-17 "The Jolly Rogers" flew the new and improved Hogs off the Bunker Hill, paving the way for US Navy to finally approve carrier ops.
		By the end of WWII, the F4U had replaced the Grumman F6F as the USN's number one shipboard fighter and she went on to perform with distinction through the Korean War, and for the French in Indochina.
	www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com /F4U.html (957 words)

	Chance-Vought Corsair F4Uaircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Royal Navy Corsairs all had 41cm clipped from their wing-tips which enabled below-deck storage on the Royal Navy carriers which were smaller than the American carriers for which the Corsair was originally designed.
		Above is a photograph of a Corsair preserved in Canada in honour of Lt 'Hammy' Gray VC and painted in his honour in the markings of the aircraft in which he was flying when lost whilst attacking a Japanese ship in August 1945.
		Corsairs in the British Navy during WW II - Contributed by Norman McKinstry, former Royal Navy FAA Corsair pilot with 1849 and 1850 Sqdn's during WW II.
	fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Corsair.htm (2250 words)

	Vought Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The United Aircraft Corporation began work on the fighter, the Vought Corsair in 1938.
		Vought Corsair test flights were highly impressive and on 1st October, 1940, it became the first American fighter to reach a speed of 400 mph (643 km).
		The Vought Corsair had a maximum speed of 425 mph (684 km) and had a range of 1,015 miles (1,635 km).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /AVcorsair.htm (178 words)

	3D 3ds Chance Vought Corsair
		The Corsair had a rough start to an otherwise successful career.
		The Chance Vought F-4-U Corsair was developed with technology available at the time by engineers trying to build a high performance airplane that could land and take off from carriers.
		The Corsair had nasty stall characteristics and a long nose that made it virtuall impossible to land on the straight deck cariiers.
	www.turbosquid.com /FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/262076/SID/285640/blFP/1 (224 words)

	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair- Great Planes - Flight Journal Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A total of 12,571 Corsairs were built, of which some 28 remain airworthy today.
		The Marine ground troops in Korea came to look at the Corsairs as their guardian angles, always there to help them out of a tough spot.
		"Corsair Preflight" is one of three new limited-edition prints by artist Marc Stewart.
	www.flightjournal.com /fj/corsair.asp (557 words)

	Vought A-7 Corsair II
		Although visually similar to the Vought F-8 Crusader, the A-7 was a completely new design.
		The A-7 was named the Corsair II after the famous Vought F4U Corsair of World War II.
		The Corsair II was used extensively in Vietnam.
	www.kensaviation.com /A-7.htm (127 words)

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