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    The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American...
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    The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III was an aircraft developed by Chance Vought as a successor to the successful Vought F-8 Crusader program and as a competitor...
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  • Look up crusader in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crusader or Crusaders may refer to: Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades Convair NB-36H...
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    the training of pilots for the F-8 Crusader, and later the training of pilots and radar intercept officers for the F-14 Tomcat. The squadron was disestablished...
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    largely due to its performance being inferior to the competing Vought F-8 Crusader, such as its limited endurance, while its Wright J65 turbojet engine...
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  • F8 (redirect from F.8)
    F8, F.VIII, F 8, F-8, or F/8 may refer to: F 8 Barkarby, a former Swedish Air Force wing F-8 Crusader, a 1955 American single-engine carrier-based jet...
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    2016. "Vought F-8 Crusader Losses & Ejections Part 3: 1967 - 1968". ejection-history.org. Retrieved 19 January 2016. "Vought F-8 Crusader Losses & Ejections...
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  • was originally known as the Mallards in 1943, but when assigned the F-8 Crusader the squadron pilots unofficially used the name "Challengers". The squadron...
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    Skyhawk, F-8 Crusader, F-11 Tiger and early navy versions of the LTV A-7 Corsair II. International customers of the A-4 Skyhawk, F-8 Crusader, and the...
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    USN and USMC F-4 Phantom II and F-8 Crusader jet fighters. The Sidewinder was more effective in the fighter vs fighter role on the F-4 platform, and...
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  • and a World War II and Korean War veteran. In 1959, he was flying an F-8 Crusader jet fighter over a cumulonimbus cloud when the engine failed, forcing...
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  • 8L (redirect from 8-L)
    Kappa (rocket) F-8L, a model of Vought F-8 Crusader Nova 8L, proposed model of Nova (rocket) HJ-8L, a model of HJ-8 missile FR-8L, a relabel of the Roland...
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  • Institute. Retrieved 14 September 2021. "F-8 Crusader". Milavia. Ding Cervantes (2005-09-29). "PAF to retire F-5 fleet". Philippine Star. Archived from...
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    Mirage F1, which carried up to three, utilizing wing hardpoints, and the F-8 Crusader, also carrying two on the sides of the fuselage in French Navy service...
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  • 8U (redirect from 8-U)
    8U or 8-U may refer to: 8U, IATA code for Afriqiyah Airways One of the possible sizes of a rack unit F8U, a model of Vought F-8 Crusader RG-8U, a type...
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    Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was derived from the Vought F-8 Crusader; in comparison with the F-8, the A-7 is both smaller and restricted to subsonic speeds...
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  • incident). The 1964 Machida F-8 crash occurred on April 5, 1964 in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. A United States Marine Corps RF-8A Crusader crashed into a residential...
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    F-8 Crusader (F-8E variant) allowing passive tracking of heat emissions and was similar to the later Texas Instruments AN/AAA-4 installed on early F-4...
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    Mersky, Peter (2012). F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War. Osprey Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 9781782006527. "Vought F-8 Crusader Losses & Ejections Part...
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    but soon found use on the A-6 Intruder, F-100 Super Sabre, F-105 Thunderchief, F-4 Phantom II, F-8 Crusader, and P-3 Orion in both Navy and US Air Force...
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    training pilots in the F-8 Crusader. That task was handed over to Light Photographic Squadron 63 (VFP-63) that then became "Crusader College" The first two...
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    "Vought F-8 Crusader Losses & Ejections Part 3: 1967 - 1968". ejection-history.org. Retrieved 18 January 2016. Mersky, Peter (2012). F-8 Crusader Units...
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    originally located in a chin position under the fuselage like the Vought F-8 Crusader, the air intake was eventually mounted in an unconventional position...
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    benefits can outweigh the costs. Several examples have flown, with one, the F-8 Crusader carrier-borne jet fighter, entering production. Some early aeroplanes...
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    studied, including stripped-down versions of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Vought F-8 Crusader, and the newly designed Northrop N-156F. On 23 April 1962...
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  • 8J (redirect from 8-J)
    powertrain, a feature of the Audi TT F-8J, a model of Vought F-8 Crusader Y-8J, a model of Shaanxi Y-8 8J, shed code for Allerton TMD 8JE740, code for J&J Hunt...
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    the F-8 Crusader, and because of this, VF-51 was picked to fly secret interdiction missions into Laos in June 1964. In 1965 VF-51 flew F-8 Crusaders off...
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    F-4 Phantom—95 lost, 72 combat F-8 Crusader—21 lost KC-130 Hercules—4 lost O-1 Bird Dog—7 lost OV-10 Bronco—10 lost RF-4 Phantom—4 lost RF-8 Crusader—1...
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    MiG Master: Story of the F-8 Crusader (second edition). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-87021-585-8. Donald 2001, p. 122. Anderson...
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    through the early 1970s in aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom, A-3/A-5/RA-5C Vigilante, and F-8 Crusader. The suit was designed by Russell Colley (who designed...
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