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Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought (February 26, 1890 in Long Island, New York – July 25, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis.
The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M. Vought and Birdseye Lewis in 1917. In 1928, it was acquired by United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which a few years later became United Aircraft Corporation; this was the first of many reorganizations and buyouts.
Chance M. Vought, son of the late aircraft manufacturer, died on Thursday in New York University Hospital. He was 37 years old. Mr. Vought's life fell into two parts.
Chance Milton Vought was only fifteen years old when Orville Wright, on the morning of December 17, 1903, became the first man to officially pilot and fly a heavier-than-air machine. Young Chance's reaction to this historical event has not been recorded but we know that it must have greatly influenced his engineering studies and thinking.
Chance Milton Vought. Learned to fly from the Wright Brothers in 1911 and received FAI pilot’s certificate No. 156. Designed the Mayo-Vought simplex aircraft in 1914 which was used by the British as a World War I training plane.
Born 26 February 1890, Chance Vought was interested in mechanics early in life and studied engineering at the Pratt Institute, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his pilot’s license in 1912 and in 1914 Chance designed his first airplane, the Vought-Mayo-Simplex.
Chance M. Vought, pioneer aviation engineer, pilot and designer, a contemporary of the Wright brothers and one of the leading manufacturers of military planes in the world, died...
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