Designed to meet the Navy’s demand for a supersonic carrier fighter, the F-8 Crusader introduced the revolutionary ...

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 ...

Marine pilot and Vietnam War veteran Harlan Chapman was recently laid to rest in a quiet ceremony at Arlington National ...

HORSHAM >> Volunteers spent nearly 5,000 hours over nine years to complete restorations on the F-8 Crusader fighter jet and with one final hour of work on Sunday the famous plane was positioned in its ...

Key point: The F-4 was so remarkably adaptable and tough that the last U.S. military Phantom wasn’t retired until December 2016. Had things gone differently, the U.S. Navy’s top Cold War fighter jet ...

Known to its pilots as the 'last of the gunfighters' due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of ...

This book covers the actions fought between two of the best known fighters of the Vietnam War, in action over the North during the early years of the conflict. Revered by Naval Aviators as the "last ...

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Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. Adopted by the U.S. Navy in 1957, the Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, 1,000 mph dogfighter that ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing in place of ...