F4U Corsair Barcalounger

Reading time: less than a minute | Written by Ben Branch | May 19th 2012

The Vought F4U Corsair was an astonishing airplane, I never knew it was this versatile though.

Read more about the Corsair here.

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Published by Ben Branch - May 19th 2012

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