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Chance-Vought RF-8G Crusader

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The F8U Crusader was the first ...
Foster's Daily Democrat

1956 Crusader welcomed to Discovery Center

CONCORD — U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Congressman Charles F. Bass (R-NH-02) recently welcomed the arrival of a vintage 1956 U.S. Navy XF8U-2 Crusader jet to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery ...
The National Interest

The F-8 Crusader Almost Became The Navy’s Top Cold War Fighter (Here’s Why It Didn’t)

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 ...
Aviation Week

Cessna’s 172: Still Going Strong At 65

The Collier Trophy goes to “the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America” during the preceding year. One year it went to Chance-Vought’s F8U Crusader, a just-launched U.S. Navy ...