Nose landing gear and tire broke off as Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando attempted landing, NTSB preliminary report says ...

Greater air pressure in the airplane’s landing gear oleo easily eliminated much ... Captain Jesse Folmar plunged his aging F4U-4B Corsair fighter into a turning dogfight with a MiG-15 jet.

The Corsair would have needed long ... So engineers canted the wings, allowing for shorter, lighter landing gear at each wing’s low point. The F4U started life with the 2,000-plus-horsepower ...