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    The Vought OS2U Kingfisher is an American catapult-launched observation floatplane. It was a compact mid-wing monoplane, with a large central float and...
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    Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought-Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace (part of Ling-Temco-Vought), Vought Aircraft Companies, and Vought Aircraft Industries. The first...
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    specifications by Vought-Sikorsky and Curtiss-Wright. The Vought design, designated Model 403 by the company, was similar to the company's OS2U Kingfisher, which...
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    Navy during World War II. The existing Curtiss SO3C Seamew and Vought OS2U Kingfisher were gradually replaced by the Seahawk in the late stages of the...
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    important observation craft during WW2 for the U.S. Navy, although the Vought OS2U Kingfisher served in greater numbers. The SOC was ordered for production by...
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    080 mi) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). She carried three Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes for aerial reconnaissance, which were launched by a...
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  • Tutor - Trainer Vought F4U Corsair - Carrier-based fighter Vought O3U Corsair - Scout Vought OS2U Kingfisher - Observation aircraft Vought SBU - Carrier-based...
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    The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance...
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    The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured...
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    080 mi) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). She carried three Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes for aerial reconnaissance, which were launched by a...
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  • during bombardment of land targets, observation-scout, such as a Vought OS2U Kingfisher, would spot the fall of ship's shots, and provide corrections, while...
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  • Kingfisher, an American weapons development program 1944–1956 Vought OS2U Kingfisher, an American observation floatplane Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher,...
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    United States Navy catapult seaplane in 1935, until the number of Vought OS2U Kingfishers manufactured during the second world war exceeded the total production...
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    The Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" was an experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman for Vought during World War II. This...
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    The Vought/General Dynamics Model 1600 series was a fighter aircraft proposal for the United States Navy's Navy Air Combat Fighter (NACF) program. The...
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    Seagull in service aboard battleships, it proved inferior to the Vought OS2U Kingfisher in a fly-off, and did not enter production. Known by the company...
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    Valiant and North American BT-14 basic training aircraft and for the Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation floatplane. Military versions of existing Wasp Junior-powered...
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    The Vought SB2U Vindicator is an American carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role...
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    scuttled by her escort ships. On September 12, 1943, a US Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher No. 2283 with the Scouting Squadron Sixty-One, VS-61, was doing...
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    The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American...
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    cranes each, while the later models had only one. At full speed, the Vought OS2U Kingfisher could be launched from these catapults and later the Curtiss SC-1...
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    On the return trip, Cronkite was flown off Texas in one of her Vought OS2U Kingfisher aircraft when Norfolk was within flying distance. He was granted...
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    (junior grade) Denver M. Baxter, USNR, flying one of Baltimore′s Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes, covered by two Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters, rescued...
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    designed to launch floatplanes. Initially, the Iowas carried the Vought OS2U Kingfisher and Curtiss SC Seahawk, both of which were employed to spot for...
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  • R-10 Polikarpov Po-2 Polikarpov R-5 Polikarpov R-Z Tupolev ANT-7 Vought OS2U Kingfisher (20 supplied through lend-lease from US) Antonov A-7 Armstrong Whitworth...
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    more economical, so the plans were shelved. The Seahawk replaced the Kingfisher around the end of the war. This article uses Friedman's designations for...
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    rescued 22 downed airmen, including some rescued by John Burns' Vought OS2U Kingfisher, and took them to Hawaii at the end of the patrol. Tang departed...
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    Hellyer and the help of RCAF 121 Search & Rescue Unit, salvaged a Vought OS2U Kingfisher from Calvert Island, British Columbia, It had crashed there on a...
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  • Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) was a large American conglomerate which existed from 1961 to 2001. At its peak, it was involved in aerospace, airlines, electronics...
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    B-25J Mitchell 20NC44310004 North American P-51D Mustang 4474216 Vought OS2U Kingfisher BU0951 Korean War era Douglas AD-4N Skyraider Grumman F9F-5P Panther...
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