To: csvset
Looks more like an A-7...
69 posted on
02/04/2006 7:41:39 AM PST by
null and void
(If the Muslim world can be brought to its knees by 12 cartoons, let's give them a whole comic book!)
To: null and void
The A-7 is the F-8's little brother. That is a F-8 in the pic .
77 posted on
02/04/2006 7:48:11 AM PST by
csvset
To: null and void
A7 was a completely different airplane that took LOTS from the original Crusader in design; both were carrier AC and both offered ease of access (low to the ground) for maintenance, arming, etc based on that design.
Most interesting is that the fighter (F-8 Crusader) was supersonic and had a tilt wing to bring it down to landing attitude while the A7 was subsonic, no tilt, and they were both exceptional at their assigned tasks.
(I think the F-8 ran up the highest kill rate in Vietnam)
123 posted on
02/04/2006 8:19:00 AM PST by
norton
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