The last dogfights between piston-engine, propeller-driven airplanes weren ... Nearly a dozen were military-surplus Vought F4U-4, F4U-5, and F4U-5N Corsairs bought privately and imported through ...

The F4U started life with the 2,000-plus-horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial, which, at the time it was introduced, was the most powerful fighter engine. Of more than 12,500 ...