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	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/Vought_F4U (947 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair
		Tommy Blackburn (CO of the Jolly Rogers) on the F4U Corsair:
		The Corsair's storage battery, which was located in the cockpit, had an unhealthy habit of boiling over.
		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 (1325 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.
		The earlier P-51B was inferior to the F4U.
	home.att.net /~historyzone/F4U-4.html (2204 words)

	Chance Vought F4U Corsair History and Specifications
		British Corsairs had their wing tips clipped, 20cm being removed at the tips, to allow storage of the F4U on the lower decks of British carriers.
		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)

	Vought F4U Corsair
		The F4U was originally suppose to be a carrier borne fighter, but its tendency to bounce on landing didn't endear it to the Navy and their carriers.
		The Corsair was the first American plane to really challenge the Zero, and with its six.50 caliber machine guns, the light Zeros were almost in a sense scredded.
		The F4U is most famous for its service in the Pacific, but the British used it on their carriers in the Atlantic.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Runway/2337/corsair.htm (395 words)

	F4U Corsair Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Known to the Japanese as "Whistling Death", the Corsair was famous for its bent gull-wings and its high kill ratios.
		The Corsair was the first U.S. single-engined fighter to exceed 400 m.p.h., and had much better performance than the F4F Wildcat, which was the current top-of-the-line Navy fighter when the Corsair was introduced.
		Later in the war it was proven that the Corsairs could operate safely off of carriers, and the "bent-wing birds" were used very successfully in helping to thwart the kamikaze raids in the war's final months.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /usplanes/aircraft/corsair.htm (316 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair - USA
		If you’ve never seen a 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.
		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)

	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)

	Vought F4U Corsair (D Llewellyn James)
		Designed by Beisel and Sikorsky, the F4U is regarded by many as one of the greatest combat aircraft in history, and was in production for a longer period of time than any US fighter other than the F4 Phantom.
		Nonetheless the F4U was adopted by the Marine Corps and quickly demonstrated its effectiveness.
		The US Navy finally adopted the F4U as a shipboard fighter-bomber in November 1944, and by early 1945 large numbers were operating from the fast carriers of the Pacific Fleet - although the longer-established and very capable Grumman F6F Hellcat remained somewhat more numerous aboard the carriers right up to the war's end.
	www.compass.dircon.co.uk /F4U.htm (544 words)

	Chance Vought F4U Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Corsair was fitted with the largest diameter propeller bolted on to the front of a plane.
		By mid-1944 the Corsair was ready for deck operations on the carriers.
		The Corsair was a popular fighter after the war as well with the last one of 12,571 built rolling off the production line in 1952.
	www.warbirdmuseum.com /History/F4U/f4u_corsair.htm (137 words)

	Vought F4U Corsair aircraft Models
		The Vought F4U Corsair was used in the military by both the Navy and Marines.
		The F4U Corsair was 33' 4" long, 16' 1" high and had a wingspan of 41'.
		The F4U 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 /Models_Fighters/airplane_models_F4U_Corsair.html (864 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
		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)

	Aircraft: Vought F4U-7 Corsair
		Rockford, IL bear in mind, though, that the F4U-7 Corsair was basically a -4 in a -6 airframe- and the -6 and AU-1 were almost identical.
		The Corsair located in the Battleship Alabama Museum in Mobile, is commonly labled as an F4U-7.
		Serial Number 129359, is even identified in their own museum as an F4U-7 but she is actually an AU-1 buit for the U.S. Marines to fill the need for a heavy armored ground attack fighter in Korea.
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/vought/f4u-7.htm (513 words)

	Chance Vought F4U-1D Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The F4U was somewhat of the fl sheep in the U.S. fighter arsenal.
		The Corsair was capable of out flying the army's P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51Mustang and also the Japanese Zero yet the navy was reluctant to use it.
		The Corsair had a long nose and the navy believed that this would make carrier landings near to impossible.
	web.bryant.edu /~history/h364proj/fall_98/martin/f4u.html (150 words)

	The Chance Vought F4U Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		History: The Corsair, like the Marines it often served, was lucky to survive its way into the second World War (in the period before WWII the Marines were almost dissolved; luckily for the Americans this never came to pass).
		Like the Hellcat, the F4U was an extremely dangerous plane to Japanese pilots increasingly dependent on the Zero design as the war moved on.
		The Corsair was such a solid design it was used well after the war into the 1950's in a variety of roles.
	www.concentric.net /~Twist/airwar/f4u/f4u.shtml (1103 words)

	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair - en
		The F4U was one of the most successful fighters of WWII.
		The vast majority of WWII F4U sorties (54470 out of 64051) were flown from land bases.
		The F4U had an inverted gull wing, a streamlined fuselage of circular cross-section and a big propeller.
	www.military.cz /usa/air/war/fighter/f4u/f4u_en.htm (207 words)

	Tamiya 1/72 Vought F4U-1D Corsair
		Kits of this aeroplane abound in the modelling hobby in different scales and for numerous versions.
		As a reference, I purchased Bert Kinzey's "F4U Corsair in Detail & Scale - Part 1 XF4U Through F2G", an inexpensive and clear publication: not that one need purchase a reference because the web contains numerous resources for this carrier based aeroplane.
		The F4U-1D, deployed in the latter part of World War II was enhanced by its being able to carry two large extra fuel tanks or bombs, plus eight rockets under the outer wing.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2003/march/aviation/Corsair.htm (1145 words)

	See F4U Corsair WW2 Training Film Live Online
		The F4U was instead relegated to Pacific island based Marine and Navy squadrons, as well as for substantial deliveries to the Royal Navy.
		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 (921 words)

	Vought F4U-1D Corsair
		Whatever you decide to call it, which may depend on which side of its guns you are no, the F4U Corsair was one of the most distinctive aircraft of World War II.
		The wing shape of the Corsair was not an accident nor was it done for aesthetics.
		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)

	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British designations were Corsair I, Corsair II, Corsair III (430 4F3A-1D's built by Brewster) and the Corsair IV.
		For the R-2600 and R-2800 this was compensated for by their power: While the V-1710 was hoped to deliver about 1,150 hp (858 kW), the R-2800 was expected to generate 2,000 hp (1492 kW) and more, and the R-2600 1500hp.
		On 1 October the XF4U-1 made a flight for Stratford to Hartford with an average ground speed of 404 mph (650 km/h).
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/corsair.htm (1922 words)

	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair
		History: The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair developed out of the need for a fast, high powered fighter with the armament and armor to simply outmuscle the elegant and maneuverable Japanese fighters it was designed to face.
		The name "Corsair" is often said in the same breath with "Mustang" and "Spitfire" when historians argue the merits of the greatest prop fighters ever.
		The F4U is a fairly popular choice in the arena because of its carrier-based capability and good ground attack ability.
	www.speakeasy.org /~mefletcher/f4u.html (1304 words)

	F4U Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vought's F4U-4B originally saw combat service in 1945.
		Five years later, many Corsairs and their pilots found themselves flying from carriers off the Korean coast to help stem the North Korean and later, Chinese invasions.
		Later, many of the old Corsairs were fitted with additional armor plate, that despite reducing performance, was gladly received by the pilots.
	home.att.net /~Historyworld/F4U.html (170 words)

	Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1D Corsair
		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 F4U was conceived to use the most powerful engine and largest propeller a fighter plane ever had; these long propeller blades caused ground clearance problems.
		F4U was developed in 1938 for US Marine Corps.
	www.sikorskyarchives.com /f4u.html (303 words)

	pf4u-ww2
		The photographs are of the Vought F4U Corsair, it's exceptional role in these wars and of the pilots and crews who flew and maintained these war birds.
		The comments were written by members of the armed services before the photographs were released to Vought.
		The comments tell some of the history of the war and gives some indication of how the Marines and the Navy felt about the Corsair and the war itself.
	www.vought.com /heritage/photo/html/pf4u-ww2.html (116 words)

	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair- Great Planes - Flight Journal Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A total of 12,571 Corsairs were built, of which some 28 remain airworthy today.
		n this essay, aviation historian Bert Kinzey covers the development of the F4U Corsair, from the first XF4U prototype, which crashed in 1940, to the final AU-1 ground attack version produced in 1952.
		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.
	www.flightjournal.com /fj/corsair.asp (557 words)

	Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair - The Collings Foundation
		Definitely one of the most distinctive designs ever employed by a fighter aircraft, the Vought F4U-5NL Corsair lives as one of the most famous fighters built during WWII.
		Used in Korea as a carrier-based fighter and night fighter, the Corsair showed it technologically advanced features to survive in an era where propeller-driven fighters were being replaced by jets.
		It is currently under rebuild by American Aero Services in New Smyrna Beach, FL with a projected completion in late 2002.
	www.collingsfoundation.org /ma_f4ucorsair.htm (140 words)

	Chance Vought F4U Corsair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first Corsair unit of the FAA was No 1830 Sqdn, created on the first of June 1943, and soon operating from HMS Ilustrious.
		Hence it developed, late in the war, a version of the Corsair powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major.
		Its handling qualities were widely criticized, but an experience pilot who knew the strong points of the aircraft could outmanoeuvre fighters that were praised for their handling and maneuvrability.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/f4u.html (5453 words)

	Warbird Alley: 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 (381 words)

	Tamiya 1/48 Vought F4U-1 Corsair
		Most people (especially if you are into model aircraft building) are well aware that the F4U Corsair is universally acknowledged as the most outstanding carrier-borne World War II fighter and was the fastest fighter aircraft at the time it was introduced.
		These kits differ very little apart from the obvious canopy shape and this includes the right-hand flap area which was the other up-close-and-personal distinguishing feature that told these two variants apart.
		Overall you will be pleased with this kit, the workmanship is better than other 1:48 Corsair kits I have done (including Hobbycraft and Mastercraft) and I would certainly recommend this to add to your collection.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/usaaf/f4u_tam.htm (590 words)

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