Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Vought F-8 Crusader: Last of the Gunfighters” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/vought-f-8-crusader/.
And the Philippine Air Force.Some additional information on the French operating the F8 Crusader would have fleshed out the article better.
My .02
The F-8 was subject of my fourth book, written when Photo Crusaders remained in the fleet. The community had stratospheric morale partly based on a perverse pride in the accident rate. There was sort of a rivalry between Crusaders and RA-5 Vigilantes for the worst safety record among carrier aircraft though both performed their missions splendidly. Among the "Dogfights" episodes I was in (roughly half of them in the two-year run) the F-8 segment remains my favorite because it focused attention on the Navy's "other fighter" with excellent descriptions by the four aviators I recommended. Dick "Brown Bear" Schaffert provided a detailed account of his classic 1-v-4 with MiG-17s plus a "drive by" courtesy of two MiG-21s.Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Vought F-8 Crusader: Last of the Gunfighters” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/vought-f-8-crusader/.
What's the books' name.?The F-8 was subject of my fourth book, written when Photo Crusaders remained in the fleet. The community had stratospheric morale partly based on a perverse pride in the accident rate. There was sort of a rivalry between Crusaders and RA-5 Vigilantes for the worst safety record among carrier aircraft though both performed their missions splendidly. Among the "Dogfights" episodes I was in (roughly half of them in the two-year run) the F-8 segment remains my favorite because it focused attention on the Navy's "other fighter" with excellent descriptions by the four aviators I recommended. Dick "Brown Bear" Schaffert provided a detailed account of his classic 1-v-4 with MiG-17s plus a "drive by" courtesy of two MiG-21s.