Stories, Facts and Highlights of The Vought Companies and Vought Products

• VE-7 Bluebird
• The Aircraft that Got a Company Off the Ground
• Production
• Additional Models
• As a History Maker
• OS2U Kingfisher
• Engineering Triumph and War Hero
• Fisher of Men
• One Saves Ten Men
• Tortoise nips the Hare
• SB2U Vindicator
• Atlantic Operations
• Combar at Midway
• Phase Out
• F4U Corsair
• Operation Summary WWII
• WWII Records
• WWII Top Corsair Aces
• Production
• Lindbergh, Clark and 4000 LB bomb load
• Operational Summary Post WWII
• Lady Engineers at Vought
• Introduction
• Louise Randall
• Shirley Beers
• Tiny Rudick
• Betty Love
• Chance Vought Moves to Texas
• The Move (16 Pages)
• V-173 Flying Pancake
• Advanced Design Concept
• The Aircraft
• XF5U-1 Flying Pancake
• Design and Structural Features
• F6U Pirate
• Design
• Flight Test
• Flight Test Incident - Paul Thayer's Dead Stick Landing
• Production Flight Test incident
• Afterburning
• F7U Cutlass
• Production
• F7U-3 Engine Story
• F7U-3 Production
• The Last of the Corsair and the Last of the Cutlass
• Regulus I
• General Characteristics for Interum Guided Missile
• Able, Baker,Charlie and FTV-1
• FTV-2
• Operation Splash and FTV-3
• Regulus I and II
• Sub-Systems
• Airframe, Engine and Fuel System
• Autopilot, Radio Control, Guidance,and Instrumentation
• Landing Gear and Hydraulic System
• Nose Boom, Wing and Fin Fold
• Warheads
• Launch Slippers, Parabrake, Smoke System and JATO
• Interesting Statistics
• F8U Crusader
• XF8U-1 Innovative Systems
• XF8U-1 In The Cockpit
• A New Aircraft and a New Corporation
• F8U-1 and F8U-1E Production Aircraft Changes
• Life Extension
• Loss of SF8U-3 and a New Challenge
• Last Flight - December 1999
• SLAM
• Airframe
• Electronics and Guidance
• Radiation and Reactor
• Muscle in Mothballs
• Flight Profile
• Scout
• Motors and Structure
• Flight Control
• Sequencing and Flight Events
• Stage Separation
• Distruct System and Radar Beacon Command Destruct
• Electrical Power
• Launch History
• Launch List
• XC-142A
• VHR-447 V/STOL Proposal
• Design/Development Programs
• The Military Operational Test Program
• NASA Operations
• A-7 Corsair II
• Genesis of the Navy Attack Bomber, Light (VA(L))
• In Combat
• Farewell Proud Bird
• Aircraft Performance Perspective
• Low Altitude Night Attack (LANA)
• Airtrans
• Program Background
• System Requirements and LTV's Proposal solutions
• Guideway
• Switch and Switch Machine
• Power Distribution
• Vehicles
• Controls
• Stations
• Maitenance
• Airtrans Today
• MLRS/GSRS
• Cost Effectiveness
• Family of Munitions
• M270A1 Launcher
• Raymond R. (Bud) Yinger
• Military
• Career

• LTV Corporation
• Files for Chapter 11
• Selling Off Company Assets
• STAAD
• Overview
• Ed Grube
• Jim Smith
• Charles Foreman
• Charles Etheridge
• Joe Williams
• Bob Allen
• Gama Goat
• Chorological History
• Other Wheeled Ground Vehicle Programs
• Roger Gamaunt
• Sources, References & Credits