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A view of the XF8U-3's chin inlet shows it to be drastically different from its predecessor, the Vought F-8 Crusader. The XF8U-3 first flew on 2 June 1958. Despite claims by many books and articles that the aircraft reached Mach 2.6 at 35,000 ft (10,670 m) during testing, the maximum speed achieved was Mach 2.39, and normal operating speed was no more than Mach 2.32. [10]
The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft [2] designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought. It was the last American fighter that had guns as the primary weapon, earning it the title "The Last of the Gunfighters".
Vought F8U Crusader: 1955 1,219 Jet engine monoplane fighter Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III: 1958 5 Prototype jet engine monoplane fighter LTV XC-142: 1964 5 Prototype turboprop tiltwing cargo aircraft LTV A-7 Corsair II: 1965 1,545 Jet engine monoplane attack aircraft LTV L450F: 1970 1 Prototype turboprop monoplane reconnaissance aircraft LTV YA ...
An F-8E Crusader of VMF-312, ca. 1964. The Panther s were replaced with FJ-2 Furies and later FJ-3 Furies , while they in their turn were being replaced in mid-1959 by F8U-1 Crusaders . Concurrent with the reassignment in February 1966 to MCAS Beaufort was the transition to yet another aircraft, the F-4B Phantom II , and redesignation as Marine ...
Vought's F-8 Crusader Marine Fighter Squadrons. ISBN 0-942612-18-3. Rottman, Gordon L. (2002). U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle – Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313319065. Sherrod, Robert (1952). History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Combat ...
Renamed Light Photographic Squadron SIX TWO (VFP-62) in order to distinguish it from Heavy Photographic squadrons that were being established, the squadron received its first Vought F8U-1P Crusader aircraft in 1959, which were redesignated as the RF-8A in 1962. In 1966, these aircraft were upgraded to a new standard designated as the RF-8G.
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