Word: vought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Just below them, at 25,000 ft., was a flight of Vought Corsairs. Their Marine pilots got all four Japs. And that was how Tommy's younger brother, Lieut. Charles Lanphier, U.S.M.C., who had just arrived in the Solomons, shot down his first enemy plane. Charley picked off one of the four that Tommy had run down his way. The coincidence made that day's combat reports remarkably fine reading for their father, Lieut. Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier Sr., a West Pointer who won his pilot's wings in World War I, later resigned to survey commercial...
...World War II. 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...
When the news of the new fighter's first battle reached the U.S. 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...