Military Aviation Art
Vought XF8U-3.
Chance Vought�s XF8U-3 Crusader III was a higher-performance
follow-on to the operational F8U-1, but lost the Navy's fly-off
competition for a new Mach 2 fighter to the all-new twin-engine, two-seat
McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II. The Crusader III was the last of the
single-engine single-seat fighters in the technological era before the
digital age, when it took two crewmembers to operate a modern fighter
aircraft�s complex electronic radar and weapons systems. Beloved by
all the pilots who flew her, the XF8U-3 was considered the
"Cadillac" of Navy fighters. |
