{"id":1345981,"date":"2026-05-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/f4u-corsair-first-flight-may-29-1940-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:00","slug":"f4u-corsair-first-flight-may-29-1940-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/f4u-corsair-first-flight-may-29-1940-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"86 Years Ago Today: The F4U Corsair Takes Its First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Eighty-six years ago today, at 11:42 in the morning on 29 May 1940, a young Vought-Sikorsky test pilot named Lyman Bullard Jr. pushed the throttle of an experimental fighter prototype called the XF4U-1, rolled down the runway at Bridgeport Municipal Airport in Connecticut, and entered aviation history. The Corsair was airborne.<\/p>\n<p>It would go on to become one of the most successful, most recognisable, and most beloved fighters of the entire Second World War.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f7fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.65\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#222\">Quick Facts<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Vought F4U Corsair<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 29 May 1940 \u2014 86 years ago today<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Test pilot:<\/strong> Lyman A. Bullard Jr., Vought-Sikorsky chief test pilot<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Iconic feature:<\/strong> Inverted gull wing \u2014 designed to clear 4-metre propeller<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Production:<\/strong> 12,571 airframes \u2014 longest US fighter production run of WWII<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Combat record:<\/strong> 11-to-1 kill ratio in the Pacific<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Wing That Solved an Impossible Problem<\/h2>\n<p>The Corsair&#8217;s signature inverted gull wing was not an aesthetic choice. It was an engineering necessity. Vought&#8217;s chief designer Rex Beisel had committed to a fighter built around the most powerful radial engine in production \u2014 the Pratt &amp; Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, producing 2,000 horsepower. That engine needed an enormous propeller \u2014 over 4 metres in diameter \u2014 to convert its power into thrust efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>A 4-metre propeller, mounted on a conventional low-wing fighter, would either drag on the runway or require an absurdly long landing gear. Beisel solved the problem with geometry. By bending the wings downward at the root and then back up at the outer panels, he could mount the landing gear at the lowest point of the wing \u2014 keeping the legs short and strong while clearing the propeller.<\/p>\n<p>The result was unmistakable. No other fighter looked anything like the Corsair. Pilots called it &#8220;the bent-wing bird.&#8221; Japanese pilots called it something less affectionate.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">First Flight, First Records<\/h2>\n<p>Bullard&#8217;s first flight lasted 35 minutes. The XF4U-1 handled cleanly and revealed no major handling issues, although the cockpit visibility \u2014 a problem that would plague Corsairs for years \u2014 was already concerning. Five months later, on a test flight on 1 October 1940, Bullard pushed the same prototype to 405 miles per hour in level flight, making the Corsair the first US single-engine fighter to officially exceed 400 mph.<\/p>\n<p>That speed alone was a generational leap. The Curtiss P-40, then the US Army&#8217;s frontline fighter, topped out around 360 mph. The Spitfire Mk II was barely faster.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Trouble With Carriers<\/h2>\n<p>The Corsair was designed for the US Navy, which intended to operate it from aircraft carriers. That intention ran into trouble. The long nose blocked forward visibility during the approach. The narrow-track landing gear made deck landings tricky. Early carrier trials in 1942 were a disaster. The US Navy initially refused to qualify the Corsair for fleet carriers, sending it instead to the US Marine Corps for land-based operations in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Marines who turned the Corsair into a legend. From Guadalcanal forward, Marine F4U squadrons amassed an 11-to-1 kill ratio against Japanese fighters. The Royal Navy, less risk-averse than the US Navy, qualified the type for carrier operations almost immediately and proved it could work.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Long, Long Career<\/h2>\n<p>Corsair production continued until 1953 \u2014 eight years after the war that made it famous ended. The aircraft flew combat in Korea, fought in the Football War between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969, and remains in airshow service today in the hands of dozens of warbird operators.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six years after Bullard&#8217;s first flight, the Corsair is still flying, still drawing crowds, and still recognisable from half a kilometre away by that bent silhouette and the unmistakable whistle of air through its wing root inlets. Few aircraft have earned such a long second life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Vintage Aviation News, US Navy Historical Center, Naval Aviation Museum archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-six years ago today, at 11:42 in the morning on 29 May 1940, a young Vought-Sikorsky test pilot named Lyman Bullard Jr. pushed the throttle of an experimental fighter prototype called the XF4U-1, rolled down the runway at Bridgeport Municipal Airport in Connecticut, and entered aviation history. The Corsair was airborne. 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