From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Edward T. Maloney is an aviation historian and museum curator based in Southern California. He is responsible for building much of the collection of historic airframes displayed at the Planes of Fame Museum at Chino Airport, Chino, California. Maloney had the foresight to recognize that today's scrap is tomorrow's history, and began collecting odd airframes for a future museum. His first item was reportedly the Ohka Kamikaze rocket in the current collection, acquired in 1946.
For my money, the F4U Corsair with its distinctive gull wings was the most beautiful fighter plane of WWII. It remains a crowd favorite at air shows today.