Built around a powerful radial engine and distinctive inverted gull wing, the Corsair became a formidable carrier and land-based fighter in the Pacific. Its unusual wing created propeller clearance without excessively long landing gear, while later variants continued serving in attack roles well beyond World War II.
INTERACTIVE MODEL LOADS WHEN NEARBY
2016 / ModernAirframe B
F-35A Lightning II
Lockheed Martin · Conventional multirole fighter
HISTORICAL FIELD NOTE
The conventional-runway F-35A combines low-observable shaping, sensor fusion, and internal weapons carriage with the lightest airframe and largest internal fuel load of the three F-35 variants. It entered U.S. Air Force operational service in 2016 and is designed for both air-to-air and precision-strike missions.
PERFORMANCE
SPECIFICATION BREAKDOWN
METRICF4U-1 CorsairF-35A Lightning II
Top speed
417 mphREFERENCE VALUE
Mach 1.6REFERENCE VALUE
Ceiling
36,900 ftREFERENCE VALUE
50,000 ftREFERENCE VALUE
Range
1,015 miREFERENCE VALUE
1,200+ nmiAPPROXIMATE / PUBLISHED
Archive milestone
Service entry · 1942REFERENCE VALUE
Service entry · 2016REFERENCE VALUE
Nation
United StatesDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
United StatesDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Primary role
Carrier fighterDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Conventional multirole fighterDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Values are concise archive references and can vary by variant, payload, configuration, altitude, operating conditions, and source. Range may describe different published measures where a directly comparable figure is unavailable.
