This Day in History:
July 25, 1930
Chance Vought, one of the "early Birds" of aviation and a leading aeronautical manufacturing pioneer and designer, dies in Southampton, Long Island, NY at the age of 42. He learned to fly in 1912 in a Wright plane. After working with both the Wrights and Curtiss, he went on to found his own manufacturing company in 1917. His design influence includes the VE-9, UO-1, FU-1, O2U-1, the first Corsair, as well as numerous Vought scout seaplanes.
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