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Chance Milton Vought

Chauncey dit Chance Milton Vought, born February 26, 1890 in Long Island and died July 25, 1930 in Southampton, Long Island, United States, is an American engineer, aviator and industrialist.

Early years

Chance Vought was born into a well-known and respected family of New York sailboat and motor boat builders. He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (New York) then at New York University and finally at the University of Pennsylvania, to deepen his technical knowledge.

In 1910 he left college and joined agricultural machinery maker McCormick Reapers in Chicago, where he soon found himself as head of the experimental development department. During his stay in Chicago, Vought's interest in aviation only grew, as his employer, Harold F. McCormick, was himself an avid aviation enthusiast. In 1911, Vought was one of the first students of the flight school opened on the Cicero airfield by the Lillie Aviation Company. Flying a Wright Brothers Vin Fiz Flyer, he obtained his pilot's license on August 14, 1912 (FAI License # 156).

Chance Vought then worked at Lillie Aviation School as an aeronautical engineer and pilot at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where military pilots were trained. While in San Antonio, Vought was also commissioned by the Aero Club of America to attend the aeronautical record attempts as an official observer. In 1913 he returned to Chicago and worked as a consultant for the Aero Club of Illinois and edited a weekly aviation magazine, Aero and Hydro.

In 1914, Vought became a design engineer for the Mayo Radiator Works firm and completely designed his first aircraft, the Vought-Mayo-Simplex. It was a success since after 200 flights, no changes were made to the original plan. This aircraft was sold to the British as a training aircraft. In 1915, the Simplex Aircraft Company was incorporated to build the aircraft designed by Vought. Two single-seat observation biplanes were thus developed.

In 1916, the Simplex Aircraft Company was purchased by the Wright-Martin Company, formed the previous year from the merger of the Wright Company of Dayton (Ohio) and the Martin Company. Vought then came to Dayton to study a new trainer plane. This was the famous Wright-Martin Model V, a military biplane used as a training aircraft by the British.

After the United States entered the war in February 1917, Chance Vought worked as a consulting engineer in the Bureau of Aircraft Production in Washington, and in the Engineering Division of the Army Air Corps in Dayton. At this time, Chance Vought married Ena Lewis, who made it a condition of marriage that he did not fly on the planes he had designed. In addition, his stepfather Birseye B. Lewis provided the necessary funds for the formation of the Lewis and Vought Corporation, which was incorporated on June 18, 1917.

Chance Vought Corporation

The company first had premises on the second floor of a building in Astoria, then in Long Island City (both sites are now in the Queens neighborhood of New York City). In 1918, Lewis and Vought produced a training aircraft, the VE-7, at the request of the Bureau of Aircraft Production led by John D. Ryan. But in 1922, the Lewis and Vought Corporation was dissolved. A new company succeeded him, the Chance Vought Corporation, whose president was George Vought, Chance's father.

Chance Vought designed the O2U Corsair in 1926, a biplane observation aircraft, the first of the Corsair series manufactured by Vought for the US Navy. It was fitted with the Wasp, Pratt & Whitney's revolutionary air-cooled engine. In 1927, the Navy ordered 291 copies. On July 16, 1927, this aircraft successfully carried out the first dive attack in aviation history against the Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua.

In July 1929, the Chance Vought Corporation was absorbed by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which brought together aviation pioneers: Frederick B. Rentschler (Pratt & Whitney), William E. Boeing, Thomas F. Hamilton and Igor Sikorsky. The following year, the Chance Vought Corporation moved into a brand new factory sandwiched between Pratt & Whitney and Hamilton Standard in East Hartford, Connecticut. Several hundred workers, technicians and engineers set to work in the new factory. With a useful surface area of ​​16,200 m², it had been built according to Chance Vought's suggestions for optimum production and equipped with the most modern machinery.

The Chance Vought Corporation was one of the most dynamic aircraft manufacturers in the United States on the eve of the resumption of military orders, when its founder and president, Chance Vought, died of sepsis on July 25, 1930, at the age of 40 years old. The company he had created nevertheless continued to grow by supplying several generations of aircraft to the US Navy, such as the legendary F4U Corsair. Through mergers and acquisitions, Vought Aircraft Industries has preserved its identity by retaining the name of its founder. Based in Dallas, Texas, it remains one of the leading manufacturers of aeronautical subassemblies in the world.

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