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Thirty Corsairs roared over Stratford, Conn. (pop. 30,000) as some 25,000 persons jammed their way through the Chance Vought plant of United Aircraft Corp. There they gaped at the new jet fighter XF6U-I and the fighter-bomber F4U-5, latest and most powerful of Chance Vought's redoubtable Corsairs. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of the founding of Chance Vought. It was also an occasion for United to tell the world that it is doing fine, at a time when almost all aviation companies are losing their shirts...
Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
Flying Leathernecks. From one of the Essex-class carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...seafaring air group commander was barrel-chested, 44-year-old Colonel Albert D. Cooley, veteran of Bougainville. Colonel Cooley will never become an admiral: the Marine carriers will be manned and commanded by Navymen. But he will boss a potent striking force: several squadrons of gull-winged, bomb-bearing Vought Corsairs, the first to be put in carrier service. This week his pilots were hard at work at carrier training at a California base, hoped to be ready for sea duty soon...
...Navy no longer needed so many Corsairs, and because the Navy considers Brewster, harried by bad management and long strangled in one of the most rigid labor-union contracts in the U.S., the least efficient producer. (The Navy said Corsairs cost $72,000 at Brewster; $63,000 at Chance-Vought, and $57,000 at Goodyear, for identical planes...