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Description
| Manufacturer: | Vought | |
| Base model: | F8U | |
| Designation: | F8U | |
| Version: | -3 | |
| Nickname: | Crusader | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1922-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Fighter | |
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Specifications
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Recent comments by our visitors
| Terry Lawver Woodbridge, VA |
Does anybody have the definitive word as to what finally happened to the Super Crusaders? Were they all butchered up and scrapped or are there any on display anywhere? 05/28/2006 @ 22:18 [ref: 13399] |
| r. brandon newton, KS | i alwalys wondered where they went when they were puton the train whentheleft the factory. old vought employee 1954 to1963 r. brandon 03/15/2003 @ 21:29 [ref: 6368] |
| Dan Robinson , CA | About 1960, I visited Moffet and wandered around the NASA
facility. There was an F8U-3 in the hangar parked above drip-pans filled with hydraulic fluid. There was another, merely a hulk, dumped in a ditch. It had hundreds of cuts from a circular saw, where (I was told) samples had been taken to study the influence of heat on the metal. The NASA folks told me that had all the information they wanted from the F8U-3 and would dispose of them when they got around to it. What a waste! I've since wondered if a search of Moffet's junk yard/fire practice area would turn up anything. dan robinson 09/01/2002 @ 22:18 [ref: 5601] |
| Eric Pittsburgh, PA | This was designed to be the Navy's mach 3 interceptor.
The F8U-3 was the plane for which the J58 engines were originally built. After the F8U-3 lost out to the F4H, the navy lost interst in it, and subsequently the advanced engines were mothballed until Lockheed dusted them off and modified them to be used for the Blackbird family. 04/20/2001 @ 00:17 [ref: 2121] |
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