The Vought F-8 Crusader was a successful carrier-based fighter, serving the US and French Navies until 1999. Known as "The Last of the Gunfighters," it was the final carrier-based jet equipped ...
Some popular U.S. military aircraft have great nicknames — the Vought F-8 Crusader came to be known as the Last of the Gunfighters — while others are less than flattering: The same company's ...
This article uses recently released U.S. Navy documents and also correspondence with pilots and maintainers to add to existing biographies of the Vought F-8 Crusader in service with the U.S. Navy in ...
The A-7 was derived from Vought’s F-8 Crusader, a single-engine, supersonic, air superiority jet that was known as “The Last of the Gunfighters.” The F-8 was first flown in the 1950s ...