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Chance Vought
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Honors and Distribution of Archives
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Hall OF FAME and HALL OF HONOR Inductions
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Distribution of Family and Company Archives
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Vought
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Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Company (TEMCO)
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TEMCO 1945 to 1961
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The Companies Big Move
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Chance Vought Moves to Texas (16 pages)
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STRAAD - Structural Assessment and Repair of Damaged Aircraft
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Overview
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STRAAD - Personal Stories
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Ed Grube
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Jim Smith
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Charles Foreman
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Charles Etheridge
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Joe Williams
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Bob Allen
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The Transition Years
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Vought Aircraft’s Transition from prime Contractor to Premier Subcontractor
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Vought Retiree Clubs and Organizations
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Survivors Club
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Chance Vought Survivor Club - History
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Chance Vought Survivors Club
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Swift Museum Foundation
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Red River Swift Wing
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Vought Products
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VE-7 Bluebird
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The Aircraft that Got a Company Off the Ground
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Production
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Additional Models
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As a History Maker
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O2U Corsair
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Christian Frank Schilt, Marine Observation Squadron 7
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OS2U Kingfisher
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Engineering Triumph and War Hero
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Fisher of Men
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One Saves Ten Men
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Tortoise nips the Hare
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SB2U Vindicator
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Atlantic Operations
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Combat at Midway
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Phase Out
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F4U Corsair
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Operation Summary WWII
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Lt. Col. Ferrill A. Purdy - “A Trip to Remenber”
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WWII Record
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WWII Corsair Aces
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Fighting 17 (VF-17)
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Production
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Lindbergh, Clark and a 4000lb Bomb Load
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Operation Summary Post WWII
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V-173 Flying Pancake
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Advanced Design Concept
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The Aircraft
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XF5U-1 Flying Pancake
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Design and Structural Features
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F6U Pirate
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Design
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Flight Test
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Flight Test Incident - Paul Thayer’s Dead Stick Landing
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Production Flight Test Incident
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Afterburning
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F7U Cutlass
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Production
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F7U-3 Engine Story
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F7U-3 Production
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The Last of the Corsair and the Cutlass
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Regulus I
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General Characteristics for an Interim Guided Missile
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Able, Backer, Charlie and FTV-1
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FTV-2
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Operation Splash and FTV-3
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Regulus I Subsystems
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Airframe, Engine and Fuel Systems
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Autopilot, Radio Control, Guidance and Instrumentation
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Landing Gear and Hydraulic Systems
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Nose Boom, Wing and Fin Fold
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Warheads
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Launch Slippers, Parabrake, Smoke System and JATO
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Interesting Statistics
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Regulus I and II
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F8U Crusader
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XF8U-1 Innovative Systems
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XF8U-1 In the Cockpit
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A New Aircraft and a New Corporation
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F8U-1 and F8U-1E Production Aircraft Changes
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Life Extension
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Loss of XF8U-3 Contract and a New Challenge
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Last Flight - December 1999
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SLAM
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Airframe
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Electronics and Guidance
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Radiation and Reactor
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Flight Profile
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Muscle in Mothballs
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Scout
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Motors and Structure
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Flight Control
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Sequencing and Flight Events
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Stage Separation
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Distruct System and Radar Beacon Command Destruct
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Electrical Power
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Launch History
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Launch List
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XC-142A
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VHR-447 V/STOL Proposal
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Design/Development Programs
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The Military Operational Test Program
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NASA Operations
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A-7 Corsair II
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Genesis of the Navy Attack Bomber, Light (VA(L))
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In Combat
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Aircract Performance Perspective
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Low Altitude Night Attack (LANA)
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Farewell Proud Bird
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Airtrans
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Program Background
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System Requirements and LTV’s Proposal Solutions
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Guideway
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Switch and Switch Machine
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Power Distribution
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Vehicles
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Controls
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Stations
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Maintenance
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Airtrans 1998
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MLRS/GSRS
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Cost Effectiveness
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Family of Munitions
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M270A1 Launcher
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Gama Goat
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Chronological History
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Other Wheeled Ground Vehicles Programs
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Roger Gamaunt
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Sources, References and Credits
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Helicopters
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Vought Helicopter Heritage
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Vought People
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Fredrick O. Detweiler
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“Aviation and Me”
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Excerpt from Interview Transcription of Fredrick O. Detweiler
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Lady Engineers
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Introduction
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Louise Randall
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Shirley Beers
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Tiny Rudick
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Betty Love
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Garnett Carlsen
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Claire Litton
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Raymond R. (Bud) Yinger
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Military
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Career
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12 Articles by Bill Collins
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Snake Charmer or Scientist? The Test Pilots Job
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The Catalina and Our Crusader of the Lake
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Three Memorable Travel Stories
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Three A-7 Articles
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Office with the Fishes
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Early Engineering Computing and Personal Calculators Come to Vought
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Guy I. Colby IV
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Colby Family Vought Aircraft Heritage
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