Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World War ...

The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio of over 11:1. During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

Aviation enthusiasts have been hearing about it all week. Now they’ll get a chance to see it. Selfridge Military Air Museum will host a public unveiling for their newly restored FG-1D Corsair fighter ...

Keegan Chetwynd walked through the museum hangar doors Monday toward what is perhaps America’s most legendary fighter plane. He looped around the tail, strolling up the portside, stopping underneath ...

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 ...

Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

During World War II, the American F4U Corsair was one of the fastest fighter planes ever built—and one of the most dangerous to fly. This story follows U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots, along with ...

This is a personal case mod project I've wanted to do for a long time. ..A lot of inspiration came from "A Story of a Flying Fortress", a documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, ...

On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...