Lived by the old motto "The difficult we do immediately. McCarthy, who was Vought’s General Manager, called in theĬompany’s chief engineer, Rex Beisel. Navy might have pushed technology to the point of giving it a hernia.Ĭ. (parent company of Vought-Sikorsky) on February 1, 1938, it seemed the Performance, carrier based fighter to United Aircraft Corporation When "BuAer" sent its proposal for a high This stimulated the manufacturers ability to respond with new technology Proposals for aircraft which pushed the limits of available technology. The US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics had a long tradition of issuing Outclimb and (if need be) outrun any prop driven enemy. Parts came one of WWII’s greatest fighter planes.
But from all these outsized and mismatched This warbird was assembled from parts that didn’t match or it has met Propeller and "bent" wings might leave you with the feeling that either If you’ve never seen a Corsair before, your first glance at the outsized (Image used with permission from Dare to Move.)
The Corsair's distinctive sound, which earned it among the Japanese the nick-name of "Whistling Death", partly because of the engine sound, that was caused by the wing-root inlets for engine air.
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