The Vought F-8 Crusader is perhaps best remembered for having many nicknames. Thanks to its supersonic speed and how it could safely takeoff even with its wings folded, pilots liked calling it "the ...

Key point: The F-4 was so remarkably adaptable and tough that the last U.S. military Phantom wasn’t retired until December 2016. Had things gone differently, the U.S. Navy’s top Cold War fighter jet ...

If you Google “F-14 gun kill” or “F-14 Hoser”, you can find a 8” x 10” frame of a 16 mm gun film shot which shows an F-15 Eagle locked through an F-14 Tomcat Head Up Display, at 250 feet, with piper ...

By the late 1960s, the F-8 Crusader had earned a reputation as the last of the pure dogfighters. Fast, unforgiving, and armed with cannons in an age of missiles, it excelled over Vietnam’s skies. This ...

Nine miles away from safety, Lt. Col. Rankin was forced to eject from his F-8 Crusader...and then he fell into a thunderstorm By James Clark Published Jun 17, 2016 7:54 PM EDT When Marine Lt. Col.

Lt. Col. William Rankin Ejected From An F-8 Crusader in A Thunderstorm At 50,000 ft. The Next 40 Minutes is Legend. If you grew up in the United States and are about my age, 58 years old, there are ...

A mid-level Army Department official resigned yesterday after he was blamed for circulating draft "talking points" that boldly lobbied to save the Crusader, an $11 billion artillery system Defense ...

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. Adopted by the U.S. Navy in 1957, the Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, 1,000 mph dogfighter that ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing in place of ...