The Primary focus of THE LIGHTER SIDE OF RC revolves around my love of FLYING & BUILDING all types of model aircraft! It's ...

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, ...

On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...

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 ...

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair that used to sit atop a pedestal in front of Sikorsky Memorial ...

The Vought F4U-4 Corsair is one of the most iconic aircraft in history. It remained in production for 11 years, longer than ...

Revista Aérea Collection Collection, Acc. 2003-0028, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should ...

U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-321 "Hells Angels", 4th Marine Air Wing, on Iwo Jima. (Public Domain) Dean Caswell, 100, the last living U.S. Marine ...

We don't know about you guys, but we wouldn't buy a watch just because Ronaldo or Hamilton wears it, and especially not one endorsed by Tiger Woods. Product placement has become as brutal and obvious ...

Answer: They were designed for totally different purposes. The F4U was designed for operations from an aircraft carrier without the need of very long range. The P-51, especially after being fitted ...

As a World War II-era fighter plane was gingerly lifted out of Lake Michigan on Monday morning, the crowd gathered at Waukegan Harbor marveled at the aircraft's condition. Although under water since a ...

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