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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Navy has a storied history of utilizing some of the most advanced and iconic aircraft in the world. From the early ...

Part one: Checkout and Mission in the F4u Corsair -- Part two: The young pilots - true adventures of America's fighter aces in WWII Summary In part one, Warbird and air racer Steve Hinton takes you on ...

In this March 24 photo provided by Justin Taylan of PacificWrecks.com, a scuba diver swims near the left wing wreckage of an F4U-4 Corsair fighter aircraft off Sonai, Iriomote Jima, in Japan. (The ...

In one sense, the almost 80-year-old Chance Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft has come home. The warbird, which served from the end of World War II through the Korean War, along with a host of other ...

Keegan Chetwynd walked through the museum hangar doors Monday toward what is perhaps America’s most legendary fighter plane. He looped around the tail, strolling up the portside, stopping underneath ...

This article explores how WWII fighter designs reveal core reliability principles still essential in today’s industrial and ...