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

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

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, ...

FARGO — A historic plane with local ties has made its way back to the Fargo Air Museum after more than five years away. The Vought F4U Corsair 310 was restored by the late Gerry Beck of Wahpeton in ...

The Vought A-7 Corsair II may be the most obscure US military jet of the modern era; few planes have fallen through the cracks of our collective memory like the A-7. Accordingly, one might be ...

In the end, Dallas-based Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. - once a part of industrial giant LTV Corp. - wasn't big enough. "Scale means a lot in this industry," Vought chief executive Elmer Doty said ...