STRATFORD -- The long-neglected Curtiss hangar at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, which has seen the likes of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, may yet have its best days ahead. The reason is the ...

On July 11, 1940, the only Vought Corsair prototype crash-landed on a Connecticut golf course, nearly ending the program ...

The cat is out of the bag. We will soon be getting a flying Corsair. The aircraft was built at Goodyear in Akron, Ohio in April 1945. It was assigned to Marine Squadron VMF-115 in the southern ...

AN F4U Corsair will be flying in to Boyington Field on August 13, giving community members a glimpse of one of the famous warbirds that flew during WWII. The Corsair, owned by Ray Thompson and piloted ...

AKRON—The Japanese called it "Whistling Death" for the sound its iconic gull wings produced in a dive. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots called it the best air-to-air fighter in the Pacific theater ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

A pair of discount French carriers will launch service between Newark and Paris Orly next summer. French Bee and Corsair will fly the route daily, beginning June 10. The route will be French Bee's ...

For Jesse Brown, the greatest challenge was not the rigors of becoming a Navy fighter pilot, nor the dangers of flying missions against North Korea from the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier. Brown ...