On March 25, 1955, the Vought F-8 Crusader made its first flight, ... The Vought XF8U-1 Crusader prototype will be unveiled at the Museum of Flight in Seattle following decades-long restoration.

An RF-8G on the deck of the John F. Kennedy in 1976. The Crusader’s surveillance variant served longer than its fighter sibling. In the Tonkin Gulf in 1965, aviation ordnancemen of VF-194 load ...

Summary and Key Points: The F-8 Crusader, developed by Vought in response to 1952 U.S. Navy requirements, was a groundbreaking fighter jet that first flew in 1955.It featured a unique high-mounted ...

The Crusader I and II won plaudits because they did carry cannon—but not the Crusader III. Like the F-4, the Super Crusader was proposed as a cannon-less fighter armed only with seven air-to-air ...

If you Google “F-14 gun kill” or “F-14 Hoser”, you can find a 8” x 10” frame of a 16 mm gun film shot which shows an F-15 Eagle locked through an F-14 Tomcat Head Up Display, at 250 ...

Adopted by the U.S. Navy in 1957, the Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, 1,000 mph dogfighter that downed 19 MiGs during the Vietnam War and served as an accurate, deadly strafer.

An incredible air-to-air engagement, where one U.S. pilot alone survived to six North Vietnamese MiGs. A true milestone in the progress of naval aviation, the Vought F-8 has been one of the few ...

The Crusader has a maximum speed of 1100 knots at 40,000 feet and a combat range of 700 miles. A total of 1,261 F-8s were built. RF-8G Bu. No. 146860, Manufacturer No. 103, Squadron No.. AF7Ol was ...

The Vought F-8 Crusader was such a plane, and was the very last offensive fighter jet to use machine guns as its primary armament when it was delivered to the U.S. Navy in the 1950s.