Word: corsair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wings in World War II, but, as he says, "when the war ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
...bombs on Seoul and Kimpo airfields. Against these bothersome "Bedcheck Charlies," high-speed jets were helpless: they could not turn tightly enough to draw a bead on ancient trainers and biplanes. The Air Force called for Navy help, and up flew Lieut. Bordelon in his World War II vintage Corsair...
...Viland of the Ford engineering department, averaged 56.7 "ton miles" per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon (27.03), the Mainline Six was second to a four-cylinder Henry J "Corsair" (28.25). In third place was Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion, with 26.86 miles per gallon...
Last week a Marine Corsair pilot, Major David Cleeland, crash-landed on a frozen reservoir, 70 miles north of the front line. Two of the rescue group's chopper pilots grabbed Pop and flew off. They found Cleeland surrounded by Reds who were pouring fire at a dummy which the major had made of his rolled-up parachute and helmet. One mounted Chinese made a one-man cavalry charge at Cleeland, was dropped by a Corsair that swooped...
...United Aircraft's Chance Vought plant in Dallas last week, the end of an aviation era was marked. The company announced that the last propeller-driven fighter to be made in the U.S. was off the production line. It was the 12,571st Corsair, a descendant of the planes once flown from Guadalcanal to the Inland Sea by such hot pilots as Marine "Pappy" Boyington and the Navy's "Ike" Kepford. Corsairs, with their inverted gull wings, were the first fighters to exceed 400 m.p.h.; during World War II they splashed a total of 2,140 enemy aircraft...