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Lewis & Vought VE-7 1918 |
The American company Lewis &
Vought of Long Island, New York,
designed and flew in the summer of
1918 the Lewis & Vought ... read more ... |
With the development of a 300hp Hispano, Vought immediately designed a new aircraft around it, the VE-8. This single seat ... read more ... |
Lewis & Vought VE-8 1918 |
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Vought FU-1 1926 |
In May 1922, the former Lewis and Vought Corporation
was reorganised as the Chance Vought Corporation
and the first product of the ... read more ... |
Early in 1927, the US Navy BuAer conceived a requirement
for a two-seat fighter for fleet defence and
contracts were signed on ... read more ... |
Vought XF2U-1 1929 |
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Vought XF3U-1 1933 |
By the spring of 1931, several months of operation of the
Curtiss F8C-4 aboard the USS Saratoga had proved conclusively
that this ... read more ... |
In 1932, the Vought company, believing an export market
to exist for a single-seat fighter among its existing
customers for the two-seat ... read more ... |
Vought V-80 1933 |
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Vought SB2U Vindicator 1936 |
The SB2U was this company's first low-wing monoplane and, like the earlier SBU, was a scout/bomber. Night-flying and deck-landing arrester ... read more ... |
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Vought V-143 1937 |
The V-141 having acquired a somewhat alarming reputation,
the aircraft was redesignated V-143 and, with
modifications to the tail unit, entered ... read more ... |
Almost certainly the most unusual aircraft designed by the company, the Chance Vought XF5U-1 was intended to produce a fighter ... read more ... |
Vought XF5U 1945 |
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Vought F6U Pirate 1946 |
Before World War II ended, Chance Vought was busy with the design of the Chance Vought V-340 single-seat jet-propelled fighter ... read more ... |
The Cutlass was a swept-wing tailless single-seat carrier-borne fighter which entered service with the US Navy in several versions from ... read more ... |
Vought F7U Cutlass 1948 |
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Despite its designation of F8U-3, the V-401, first flown on 2 June 1958, was a totally new fighter developed in ... read more ... |
Vought F8U-3 1958 |
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