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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". [3] [4]
Four Vought F8U-1 Crusader of U.S. Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 312 (VMF-312) ... of U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadron VMF-312 ''Checkerboards'' in 1960. |Source=U ...
Four Vought F8U-1 Crusader of U.S. Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 312 (VMF-312) "Checkerboards" in flight, 1960 ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1960 ...
Vought began making its F-8 Crusader for the Navy in 1957; it was one of the Navy's first supersonic fighters and its last all-gun fighter. The same basic design was later heavily revised and shortened to produce Vought's A-7 Corsair II , a carrier-borne close-air-support and attack plane.
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.
F-8 Crusader Military unit Fighter Squadron 162 or VF-162 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy established on 1 September 1960 and disestablished on 29 January 1971.
Vought's design based on the F-8 Crusader won the competition and the A-7 Corsair II was born. The resulting A-7 series aircraft were supplied to both the US Navy and the US Air Force. Lau was one of three people named in US design patent 178,220, for the 'ornamental design' of the Crusader. [3]
A U.S. Navy Vought RF-8A Crusader (BuNo 146846) of Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 63 (VFP-63) Det. A "Eyes of the Fleet" approaches for a landing aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41), circa in 1961-1962.