the naval version is out now. can anyone offer any info as to how different other variants may be? I've always bought the Trumpeter
My only knowledge of the Crusader is from the movie Thirteen Days, yes a novice in every way. From what I have read, the Navy version was the primary version
Santa needs to know !
thx - Craig
F8U-1/F-8A: Initial production version with smaller nose, no belly strakes, no bulge on the port side of the fuselage for the refuelling probe bay. Bulges were later retrofitted. F8U-1P/RF-8A: First photo recon version, made famous by John Glenn's "Project Bullet" transcontinental supersonic flight. F8U-1E/F-8B: Added refuelling probe/bulged bay. F8U-2/F-8C: Added belly strakes and underwing stores. F8U-2N/F-8D: Improved F-8C. F-8E: New nosecone for bigger radar. Also built as the F-8E(FN) for the French Navy, with some hardware differences. RF-8G: Remanufactured RF-1A with many of the later model's improvements. F-8H: Remanufactured F-8D with A-7 Corsair II landing gear, F-8E nose and other upgrades. Some exported to the Philippine Air Force. F-8J: Remanufactured F-8E. F-8K: Remanufactured F-8C. F-8L: Remanufactured F-8B. F-8C NASA version: Rebuilt with alternate wings to test new aerodynamic designs. F8U-1T/TF-8A: One-off tandem-seater trainer. F8U-3: One-off enlargened redesign, built to compete with the F4H Phantom II. Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
The F-8E(FN) was the same as the later F-8J. The main differences from the F-8E were larger stabs and double droop leading edge flaps.
I knew a retired Tomcat driver down at NAS Kingsville that like to say that he "survived" flying F-8s...that's about all I know about them...I didn't know they were used other than for Naval service.
Here's someone that has them:
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