This F4U Corsair flew in Honduras before reaching Europe

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The picture above shows F4U-4 Corsair OE-EAS at the Salzburg Airport and comes from The Flying Bulls official website. F4U Corsair was carrier-based fighter-bomber from the 1940s. Chance Vought started the design work on the Corsair in 1938. The plane took its first flight in mid of 1940. Initial tests showed difficult flight characteristics in …

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Swedish Air Force Historic Flight J29F Tunnan on final approach.

J29 was called “Flying Barrell”, and SAAB didn’t like it

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This article was updated with feedback from the members of the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight group on Facebook. Thank you for all the comments! J29 was a Swedish-build fighter designed in the 1940s and officially introduced to service in 1951. It was one of the first fighters with swept-back wings in the world. It …

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