Eighty-five years ago today, a warbird legend was born. On May 29, 1940, the prototype Chance Vought F4U Corsair roared to ...

claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio of over 11:1. During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft as the most ...

But the real king of the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair ... up on the scene in 1943, the Corsair proved to be incredible at air-to-air combat against the quickly dwindling ...

The first fighter to fly with the 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine, the Vought F4U Corsair was also, not coincidentally, the first U.S. fighter to exceed 400 mph in level flight.

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 ...