You must mean Vidkun Quisling, the nazi leader of norway.
->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

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Or Philipe Pétain, the definition of "traitor" for most of the Frenchmen. 

I would think that Petain was more a man broken by circumstances, and the Pierre Laval was the traitor/ opportunist;  but I will admit to a certain shakiness in my knowledge of that part of history.

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One man's traitor is another man's hero. I suspect that many more French people sympathised with Petain than they would care to admit. I can't say I blame them & wonder what I would have done in the same circumstances. Maybe my cynical side is showing again but I've often thought it amazing how many new members of the Resistance suddenly appeared after the liberation.

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Hmmm. I'll have to think about that. Major US fighter you say? I assume this is a WWII fighter. I wouldn't have considered that anything unusual before you mentioned it as many retractable undercarriages are a pretty tight fit & some have a very complex retracting sequence to get it all neatly tucked away.

I'm going to guess,

I say it's the F4U Corsair.  Reason for my guess is I know the Corsair was built arount the largest radial engine the US had at the time, the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp.  In order to use all that power to it's max, they had to stick a very big prop on it, hense the inverted gull wing and (I'm guessing) extended undercarriage.

But then again, both the Corsair and the Hellcat had their landing gear retract backward which limits the amount of wing real-estate the wheels can retract in, and the Hellcat used the same engine.  The Corsair got help in clearing the prop from the inverted gull wing so it didn't have to have landing gear that long, but the Hellcat didn't have that help.  I change my mind.  I say it's the Hellcat.

.....but I'm guessing.

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At a mention of that name, I was reminded of the film "The Silver Fleet". Well worth bringing out on DVD...

(The main character, a Dutch ship builder is accused of being a Quisling, amongst other things...)

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Pétain? He was convicted of collaboration/treason and sentenced to death by firing squad. This was commuted to life imprisonment by de Gaulle, and he died in prison in 1951 (aged 94 or 95 by this point)

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It wasn't a question (not that those who didn't know, shouldn't) -- I was stating that "he got the boot" (as in, "kicked out"). If it weren't for his WW1 fame, the sentence may not have been changed (but, then, he undoubtedly wouldn't have held the Vichy presidency in the first place).