East Haven Students Assist in Vintage Plane Restoration

students will join several of their counterparts from four other Connecticut high schools later this afternoon to help Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. restore a vintage World War II airplane, according to a report on HartfordBusiness.com.

The 50 or so students taking part in the project — many of whom intend to go on to careers in science, technology, math or engineering — will assist Sikorsky engineers in refurbishing the plane, a Vought F4U-4 Corsair fighter-bomber.

In addition, the students will also be given the opportunity to get behind the controls of a propeller-plane flight simulator that will be set up at the Shelton airport.