Two U.S. Navy Vought F-8E Crusader fighters from fighter squadron VF-33 Tarsiers prepare for a launch in afterburner from the waist catapults of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1964.

F-8 Crusader: The Supersonic Jet That Revolutionized Naval Aviation In 1952, the U.S. Navy announced a set of requirements for a new fighter aircraft. The new jet was to have a top speed of Mach 1 ...

Had things gone differently, the U.S. Navy’s top Cold War fighter jet could have been the F-8 Crusader instead of the F-4 Phantom. But not the legendary Crusader that bested MiGs over North ...

Known and unknown stories of a legendary F-8 Crusader and F-14 Tomcat pilot. 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 ...

The Crusader boasted a speed capacity up to Mach 1.7. It had an innovative wing design, which hinged upwards during slow-speed flight, to improve controllability when landing on aircraft carriers.

This Crusader was the last operational F-8 in the U.S. Navy. It was built as an F8U-lP by Ling Temco Vought and was delivered as the 66th F8U-lP on 30 September 1959. In the course of its lifetime ...

Have Gun, Will Dogfight On its 60th anniversary, pilots remember the Vought F-8 Crusader.

You won't believe it but U.S. Navy legendary planes (F-4, F-8 and F-14) could fly with folded wings, asymmetric configurations. To save space aboard the deck of U.S. flattops, aircraft built for ...

The F-8 Crusader, designed by Chance-Vought in 1952 in response to the Navy's call for a new fighter to operate from aircraft carriers, was something of a throwback to that earlier time — its ...

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 ...

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 ...