Aircraft production

During the course of 1942 General Motors, in conjunction with several other companies, reorganised the production of some of its American factories to respond to the American war effort, in doing so creating the Eastern Aircraft Division. The company obtained contracts for the manufacture of...

Having discarded the two-seat side-by-side crewforthree in-line, the cockpit area was made much slimmer.This meant the instrument panels for all three positions were revised and while the main instruments and dials were in a panel in front of the crewman, many of the other...

Jim Tobul's Bamberg, South Carolina-based Vought F4U-4 Corsair, BuNo 97143 successfully flew again for the first time on August 7 following its nose-over accident in mid-May reports Richard Mallory Allnutt. Nicknamed 'Korean War Hero', the naval fighter overturned on landing at DeKalb- Peachtree airport...