Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World War ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

There are several examples of combat aircraft that were born with the aim to serve in two or three different services of the same nation in aviation history. Usually, these programs face many problems ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) - A World War II plane is back on dry land, after sitting at the bottom of Lake Michigan for nearly 70 years. The Birdcage Corsair plane was built in the 1930s, and crashed during ...

Fighter planes get all the love. There's not much argument about that. Most people will tell you that World War Two's greatest American navy aircraft was the F6F Hellcat or the F4-U Corsair. But what ...

JEROME — A vintage aircraft didn’t quite make it off the runway at the Jerome County Airport on Tuesday morning. Jerome County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash of the 1950s-era F4U Corsair with ...

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 ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. When Gen. Dwight Eisenhower surveyed the beaches 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 ...