An XF6U-1 without afterburner. A specification was issued by the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) for a single-seat, carrier-based fighter powered by a Westinghouse 24C (later J34) axial turbojet on 5 September 1944. Chance Vought was awarded a contract for three V-340 (company designation) prototypes on 29 December 1944. [1]

The XF6U-1 was Chance Vought Aircraft’s first jet-propelled airplane, using what was, at the time, Westinghouse Electric’s first production axial-flow jet engine (J34-WE-22) rated at a 2,800-pound static thrust.

沃特公司提交了它的v340设计，被海军选中并重新命名为xf6u。 这种飞机是传统的直翼布局，机身和机翼使用了Metalite蒙皮（铝层中间夹有巴尔沙木）、进气口和垂直尾翼上蒙的是Fabrilite（玻璃纤维/巴尔沙木“夹心”）。

2024年1月23日 · 在量产型 f6u-1 飞机中，首架飞机于 1949 年 7 月进行了首飞，并于次月开始在美国海军服役。 USN 为此订购了 65 架该型飞机，但钱斯沃特公司因为剩下的订单被甲方取消，最终只交付了 30 架飞机。

The F6U-1 was an afterburner-equipped production variant fitted with a single seat for the crew. It has an external length of 11.46 meters, an external height of 2.4 meters, and a fuselage diameter of 1.2 meters.

Vought F6U-1, USN Serial number 122479 was the 2nd production airplane. It was a flight test aircraft which ended its career in the desert of Socorro, New Mexico as a ground subject for explosive charge cutting development. The shattered airframe then found its way to the Connecticut Air Museum where some restoration on the vertical

XF6U-1 (33532) (Curtiss Aldrich Collection) A low mid-wing monoplane with an all-metal structure and an armament of four 0.787 in (20 mm) M3 cannon, the XF6U-1 was largely covered by Vought-developed Metalite skinning, this comprising two thin sheets of aluminum sandwiching a balsa wood core, and used Fabrilite, a glass fiber and balsa sandwich ...

The XF6U was a small aircraft with tricycle landing gear and with straight wings and tail surfaces. The wings were short enough that they did not need to fold. In order to fit more aircraft into crowded hangars, the nose gear could be retracted and the aircraft's weight would rest on a small wheel attached by the ground crew.

2018年2月21日 · The F6U Pirate went on to see a low-key service career as an experimental jet for USN squadron VX-3 and nothing more. Only 30 production-quality machines were built under the F6U-1 designation while a sole F6U-1 was pulled aside for conversion to the "F6U-1P" photographic-reconnaissance platform.

It was the first turbojet-powered aircraft to be designed by the company, but proved sufficiently attractive for the US Navy to award a contract for three XF6U-1 prototypes on 29 December 1944. Of low-wing monoplane configuration, the all-metal structure of the air-frame had Metalite skins, patented by the company and comprising two sheets of ...