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Built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
...production on the Navy's top-notch Corsair fighter (designed by Vought-Sikorsky, farmed out to Brewster), he started building them in the antiquated Long Island City plant, even though part of the wall had to be torn out to get the first completed ship...
Today the "Thach Weave" and the four-plane section are standard and regarded by the Navy as the ideal use of the fire power and ruggedness of its Grumman Wildcats against the nimble but destructible Zero. When the Navy got a newer fighter-the Vought Corsair-it found weaving good for it, too. Said one Marine pilot on Guadalcanal: "We knock them off with the Thach Weave...
...Earlier in the war, Brewster made a fighter plane, the Buffalo, that got into action in the Far East before Java and Singapore fell. By 1942 it had converted to making the Buccaneer, a not-so-hot dive-bomber, and is about to start making the Vought Corsair, an excellent Navy fighter. But the biggest trouble is not with the quality of Brewster planes, but with the quantity, which is a very meager military secret. Thus far the Axis has had little to fear from Brewster...
...last week, the Vought factory at Stratford, Conn, was well along in output and driving toward full rate. But it will produce only part of the Navy's new swarm. At Akron, Goodyear Aircraft Corp. was also making the new Vought fighters. Goodyear ran its first Corsair off the line last week, announced that production had begun...