The Vietnam War Flight Museum recently announced plans to acquire the last operational F-8 Crusader, an aircraft that holds a unique place in aviation history as “The Last of the Gunfighters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...