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Vought F-8 Crusader: The Last Gunfighter

The Vought F-8 Crusader is perhaps best remembered for having many nicknames. Thanks to its supersonic speed and how it could safely takeoff even with its wings folded, pilots liked calling it "the ...
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1,000 MPH, 7,000 Missions, 19 Aces: The Navy’s Supersonic Gunfighter

The F-8 Crusader’s variable-incidence wing and 16,500-pound engine made it the Navy’s first true Mach 1 fighter. Flying 7,000 missions over Vietnam, it scored 19 air-to-air kills with its 20mm cannons ...
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Vought's F-8 Crusader. Part one, Development and testing, foreign users and F8U-3 / by Steve Pace

Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Steve Ginter. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!983657~!0#focus ...
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Vought F-8 Crusader in USN., US Marine Corps & aeronavale service / illustrated by Richard Ward; compiled by Richard Ward and Arthur L. Schoeni; text by Robert Kopitzke

On label pasted on cover: No. 40. siris_sil_452168 ...