Navy Corsair built by Goodyear Aerospace, 1974
Title
Navy Corsair built by Goodyear Aerospace , 1974
Subject
Airplanes Goodyear Aerospace Corsairs United States Navy Goodyear Aircraft
Description
In the years between 1941 and 1945 , Goodyear Aerospace produced 4,008 carrier-based fighter-bombers - the FG-1 and FG-2 Navy Corsairs . Early air battles had shown the need for a fighter airplane that could fly and climb faster , higher and farther , and that could strike harder and more frequently than anything that had been built before . Goodyear built such a plane , the FG-1 . It had a top speed of 309 miles per hour at sea level which increased to 390 miles per hour at 24,700 feet . After takeoff it could climb at a rate of 2,860 feet per minute to a maximum altitude of 33,150 feet . With a normal load , it had a range of 947 miles , flying at 5,500 feet . Near the end of the war , the Navy asked Goodyear Aerospace to build a totally new and higher performance airplane , but one that looked like a Corsair -- the F2G-2 . It could fly about 100 miles per hour faster , go about 100 miles farther , climb to 30,000 in four minutes less time and climb 2,000 feet higher than its predecessor . However , before the Navy could spring its surprise on the Japanese , the Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , ending the war . Only 17 of the advanced models were produced before Goodyear ended production forever .
Creator
Kuner, Ron
Publisher
Akron Beacon Journal
Contributors
Akron Beacon Journal
Date
December 20 , 1974
Time period
1970s
Type
image
Format
7 x 9 in.
Source
Airplanes_Corsair_Goodyear_01a.jpg
Verso Transcription
Airplanes old corsair.. . Goodyear wingfoot plant / Beacon Journal Photograph DEC 20 1974 / TUE Feb 3 1998
Relation
Akron Beacon Journal Photograph Collection
About the Collection
This collection includes photographs of Akron and Summit County, Ohio, selected from the archives of the Akron Beacon Journal and contributed through a partnership between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Images may include crop marks, blacking, opaquing, painting, retouching and other enhancements made prior to publication, including markings that may obscure or revise original elements of the photographs. These markings and enhancements have been left intact intentionally.
Rights
Copyright Beacon Journal Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproductions
http://www.summitmemory.org/cdm/abjreproductions
Date created
November 09 2014
Date modified
March 13 2015
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