@ Camarillo, CA
August 2019
This Corsair taxies for takeoff during the 2019 Wings Over Camarillo Airshow. Post-war, this combat veteran Corsair was used as a Hollywood movie prop at the Twentieth Century Fox Studios until it was eventually acquired by Planes of Fame Air Museum in 1970. The gull-wing design of the F4U Corsair makes the aircraft one of the most distinctive fighters of World War II. First flown on May 29, 1940, it was the first single-engine fighter able to exceed 400 mph in level flight. More than 12,500 of these warplanes were produced. Nikon D7100 w/18-200mm.