DETAIL & SCALE 31 VOUGHT LTV F-8 CRUSADER USN VF USMC VMF RF-8 VFP AERONAVALE

Description: DETAIL & SCALE 31 VOUGHT LTV F-8 CRUSADER USN VF USMC VMF RF-8 VFP AERONAVALE DETAIL & SCALE 31 VOUGHT LTV F-8 CRUSADER USN VF USMC VMF (+RECCE RF-8 VARIANT) WRITTEN BY BERT KINZEY. NEW 1988 REVISED EDITION HISTORICAL SUMMARY (CHANCE VOUGHT F8U CRUSADER, GENERAL ARRANGEMENT, DESIGNATIONS, TECHNICAL DATA, TF-8A DUAL COCKPIT ARRANGEMENT, XF8U-3 SUPER CRUSADER) PILOTï¿½S REPORT (VF-84 BARRICADE LANDING) CRUSADER FIGHTERS F8U-1 / F-8A / F8U-1E / F-8B (VX-3, VF-103, VF-154, VF-211, VMF-333, VMF-321, ) F8U-2N/F-8D/F-8H (USS CORAL SEA VF-154, VF-62 USS SHANGRI-LA, VF-13, VF-202 USNR) F8U-2NE / F-8E / F-8J (VF-174, VF-103 USS FORRESTAL, VF-11 USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, VF-194 USS ORISKANY) CRUSADER DETAILS (CANOPY, Mk-F5A Mk-F7 EJECTION SEAT, NOSE LANDING GEAR, MAIN LANDING GEAR, ENGINE DETAILS CRUSADER COLOR PHOTO GALLERY (USN, XF8U-1, VF-84 USS INDEPENDENCE, TWO-SEAT CRUSADER, VC-8, VFP-63 PHOTO RECONNAISSANCE VARIANT, VF-24 USS HANCOCK CV-19) NASA CRUSADER COLOR PHOTO GALLERY CRUSADER DETAILS COLOR PHOTO GALLERY (AIM-9L SIDEWINDER FUSELAGE RAILS, 20mm GUN BAY, REFUELING PROBE, COCKPIT, LEFT / RIGHT CONSOLE) RF-8 PHOTO RECONNAISSANCE CRUSADER COLOR PHOTO GALLERY (VFP-63, VFP-62, VFP-306 USNR) RF-8G COCKPIT COLOR FOREIGN CRUSADERS COLOR PHOTO GALLERY (FRENCH NAVY AEROVANALE, PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE) DIMENSIONS AND DRAWINGS FUSELAGE DETAILS, SPEED BRAKE DETAILS, WING DETAILS, FLAPS /AILERONS / DROOPS, TAIL DETAIL, 20mm CANNON DETAILS, CAMERA BAY DETAILS YOU WILL FIND GREAT DEALS ON HARD-TO-FIND AVIATION, ARMOR, NAUTICAL AND MILITARIA MAGAZINES AT MY EBAY STORE ï¿½INTERNET AIRPLANE MAGAZINES AND BOOKSï¿½! 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I WILL POST POSITIVE FEEDBACK FOR YOU AFTER THE TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE AND I AM REASONABLY SURE THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE ITEM. IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEM, PLEASE EMAIL ME TO WORK THINGS OUT BEFORE LEAVING FEEDBACK. MY GOAL IS TO LEAVE EVERY CUSTOMER 100% SATISFIED WITH MY PRODUCTS AND SERVICE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) was a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft built by Vought for the United States Navy and the Marine Corps, replacing the Vought F7U Cutlass. After the Navy's disappointing experience with the Cutlass, the Crusader was referred to by some as "Vought's Last Chance" after company founder Chance M. Vought. The first F-8 prototype was ready for flight in February 1955, and was the last American fighter with guns as the primary weapon, principally serving in the Vietnam War. The RF-8 Crusader was a photo-reconnaissance development and operated longer in U.S. service than any of the fighter versions. RF-8s played a crucial role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, providing essential low-level photographs impossible to acquire by other means. U.S. Naval Reserve units continued to operate the RF-8 until 1987. Prototype XF8U-1s were evaluated by VX-3 beginning in late 1956, with few problems noted. Weapons development was conducted at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and a China Lake F8U-1 set a U.S. National speed record in August 1956. Commander "Duke" Windsor set, broke, and set a new Level Flight Speed Record of 1,015.428 mph (1,634.173 km/h) on 21 August 1956 beating the previous record of 822 mph (1,323 km/h) set by a USAF F-100, however, the world speed record of 1,132 mph (1,822 km/h), set by the British Fairey Delta 2, on 10 March 1956, was not broken. An early F8U-1 was modified as a photo-reconnaissance aircraft, becoming the first F8U-1P, subsequently the RF-8A equipped with cameras rather than guns and missiles. On 16 July 1957, Major John H. Glenn, JR, USMC, completed the first supersonic transcontinental flight in a F8U-1P, flying from NAS Los Alamitos, California to Floyd Bennett Field, New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.3 seconds. Air Development Squadron Three was established in November 1948 and tasked with evaluating new and existing naval aircraft, equipment and methods and also developing tactics and procedures for these. VX-3 was one of the first units to receive the F8U-1 in December 1956, and was the first to operate the type in April 1957, from the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. VX-3 was the first unit to qualify for carrier operations but several aircraft were lost in accidents, in several cases killing their pilots. The first fleet squadron to fly the Crusader was VF-32 at NAS Cecil Field, Florida, in 1957, deploying to the Mediterranean late that year on Saratoga. VF-32 renamed the squadron the "Swordsmen" in keeping with the Crusader theme. The Pacific Fleet received the first Crusaders at NAS Moffett Field in Northern California and the VF-154 "Grandslammers" (named in honor of the new 1,000 mph jets and subsequently renamed the "Black Knights") began their F-8 operations. Later in 1957, in San Diego VMF-122 accepted the first Marine Corps Crusaders. In 1962, the Defense Department standardized military aircraft designations generally along Air Force lines. Consequently, the F8U became the F-8, with the original F8U-1 redesignated F-8A. The unarmed Crusader was operated aboard carriers as a detachment (Det) from either VFP-62 or VFP-63 to provide photo reconnaissance capability as RF-8A proved ideal for the task of getting low altitude detailed photographs. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, RF-8As flew extremely hazardous low-level photo reconnaissance missions over Cuba with overflights beginning on 23 October 1962. These were the first true operational flights of the F-8 Crusader. Flights of RF-8As, operating in several pairs of aircraft, with each pair assigned a different target, left Key West twice each day, to fly over Cuba at low level, then return to Jacksonville, where the film was offloaded and developed, to be rushed north to the Pentagon. When conflict erupted in the skies over North Vietnam, it was U.S. Navy Crusaders from the USS Hancock that first tangled with Vietnam People's Air Force (North Vietnamese Air Force) MiG-17s on 3 April 1965. Although the MiGs claimed the downing of a Crusader, Lt Pham Ngoc Lan's gun camera revealed that his cannons had set an F-8 ablaze, but Lieutenant Commander Spence Thomas had managed to land his damaged Crusader at Da Nang, the remaining F-8s returned safely to their carrier. At the time, the Crusader was the best dogfighter the United States had against the nimble North Vietnamese MiGs. The U.S. Navy had evolved its "night fighter" role in the air wing to an all-weather interceptor, the F-4 Phantom II, equipped to engage incoming bombers at long range with missiles such as AIM-7 Sparrow as their sole air-to-air weapons, and maneuverability was not emphasized in their design. Some experts believed that the era of the dogfight was over as air-to-air missiles would knock down adversaries well before they could get close enough to engage in dogfighting. As aerial combat ensued over North Vietnam from 1965 to 1968, it became apparent that the dogfight was not over and the F-8 Crusader and a community trained to prevail in air-to-air combat was a key ingredient to success. The Crusader also became a "bomb truck" in war, with both ship-based U.S. Navy units and land-based U.S. Marine Corps squadrons attacking communist forces in both North and South Vietnam. USMC Crusaders flew only in the south, while U.S. Navy Crusaders flew only from the small Essex-class carriers. Marine Crusaders also operated in close air support missions. Despite the "last gunfighter" moniker, the F-8s achieved only four victories with their cannon; the remainder were accomplished with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, partly due to the propensity of the 20 mm (.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannons' feeding mechanism to jam under G-loading during high-speed dogfighting maneuvers. Between June and July 1966, during 12 engagements over North Vietnam, Crusaders shot down four MiG-17s for two losses. The Crusader would be credited with the best kill ratio of any American type in the Vietnam War, 19:3. Of the 19 aircraft shot down during aerial combat, 16 were MiG-17s and three were MiG-21s. U.S. records only indicate 3 F-8s lost in aerial combat, all to MiG-17 cannon fire in 1966, but the NVAF claimed 11 F-8s were shot down by MiGs. A total of 170 F-8 Crusaders would be lost to all causes during the war. FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager.Make your listings stand out with FREE Vendio custom templates! 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