The F7U was the final aircraft designed by Rex Beisel, who also designed the TS-1, the Navy's first aircraft built specifically for carrier operations, and the famed F4U Corsair. Designated the...

2017年6月4日 · The F7U featured hydraulically powered controls, an “artificial feel” control system and a steerable nose wheel. It was also the first fighter to catapult from a carrier with nearly 2½ tons of external stores and weapons.

The Chance-Vought F7U Cutlass, a swept-wing, tail-less fighter, was one of the most radical aircraft to reach the U.S. Fleet. Its career was brief but dramatic. Development of the Cutlass began in 1945 as Allied intelligence revealed German advances in high-performance, tailless aircraft, and the U.S. Navy decided to sponsor an advanced carrier ...

The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a highly unusual, semi-tailless design, allegedly based on aerodynamic data and plans captured from the German Arado company at the end of World War II, though Vought...

The Vought F7U Cutlass was designed and produced by Chance Vought as a carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the United States Navy during the Cold War era. The F7U was the final designed aircraft of Rex Beisel and was built without tail assembly and no other horizontal surface aside…

2018年2月21日 · The Vought F7U "Cutlass" was an American Cold War-era naval fighter and the first swept-wing USN fighter to be adopted into service as well as the first "tailless" American fighter aircraft. The type led a troubled developmental existence and an even more troubled service life to the point that only a few hundred aircraft were procured and ...

2023年6月21日 · The F7U was powered by two Westinghouse J46-WE-8B turbojet engines, each capable of producing up to 6,100 lbs of thrust with afterburner. The choice of engine was crucial to the Cutlass’s high-speed performance and its ability to operate from aircraft carriers.

Discover the F7U Cutlass: one of the U.S. military's first jet-powered aircraft. Flown from 1948, it served with 13 Navy squadrons until 1957. Learn its historic carrier tests on USS Midway.

It was designed to operate at Mach 0.95 up to 40,000-foot altitude. The airplane was designed for aircraft carrier use, but lacked the forward visibility necessary for carrier landings because of the very high nose-up angle required for landing approach speeds.

For the Navy it was the first aircraft to have swept wings and use a high-pressure hydraulic system. The F7U-M variant was the first figher plane equipped with air-to-air guided missiles. Despite...