Step inside the grim headquarters of vought Aircraft in Dallas and you think of neutron bombs. A golf cart takes you from one half-empty building to another on the 314-acre campus. Offices have fresh coats of paint but little to remind you of the glory days of America's second-oldest maker of air-frames, founded in 1917 by Chance Milton Vought, the Wright Brothers' chief engineer. Once part of the predecessor companies to both United Technologies and LTV Corp., Vought (rhymes with "bought") made the Corsair, the first U.S. fighter plane to hit 400mph (1940) and the Scout rocket for NASA (1971).
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