The Vought F7U Cutlass is a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought. It was the first tailless production fighter in the United States as well as the Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners .

Jun 4, 2017 · The F7U featured hydraulically powered controls, an “artificial feel” control system and a steerable nose wheel. It was also the first fighter to catapult from a carrier with nearly 2½ tons of external stores and weapons.

Conceived in part from swept-wing, tailless research recovered from the German manufacturer Arado after World War II, the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass was a radical departure from not only every...

The Chance-Vought F7U Cutlass, a swept-wing, tail-less fighter, was one of the most radical aircraft to reach the U.S. Fleet. Its career was brief but dramatic. Development of the Cutlass began in 1945 as Allied intelligence revealed German advances in high-performance, tailless aircraft, and the U.S. Navy decided to sponsor an advanced carrier ...

With a history of producing unconventional aircraft, Chance Vought began work on a tailless, swept-wing jet in June 1945. The F7U was the final aircraft designed by Rex Beisel, who also designed...

The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a highly unusual, semi-tailless design, allegedly based on aerodynamic data and plans captured from the German Arado company at the end of World War II, though Vought...

The Vought F7U Cutlass was designed and produced by Chance Vought as a carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the United States Navy during the Cold War era. The F7U was the final designed aircraft of Rex Beisel and was built without tail …

The Cutlass was a “tail-less” Navy fighter that first flew in 1948. It was very innovative in that the conventional horizontal tail was eliminated to avoid the extreme nose-down forces experienced by conventional airplanes at speeds above Mach 0.75.

Discover the F7U Cutlass: one of the U.S. military's first jet-powered aircraft. Flown from 1948, it served with 13 Navy squadrons until 1957. Learn its historic carrier tests on USS Midway.

It was the first production naval aircraft to achieve supersonic flight, the first to release bombs at a speed greater than the speed of sound and the first to be catapulted from a carrier while carrying nearly 2300kg of external stores.