F-8 Crusader

Can you take a screen of your link, its blocked for me.

Strange, I can't access the webpage via my previous link but if I go directly to the website it works : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-would-lose-any-war-fought-in-the-pacific-with-china-7j90bjs5b

What’s the latest on the Crusader?

Nothing, the F4U isnt even out so it's bit too soon to ask.

What’s the latest on the Crusader?

The latest news on the Crusader is here (scroll down): https://leatherneck-sim.com/2020/05/20/crouching-update/

Man I want to fly the F-8 so much!

Hello LN/M3!

Just wondering if there is any news to share, or if there will be some sort of a newsletter at the end of the year with more info?

Hope all is well and looking forward to the F-8!

Hello LN/M3!

 

Just wondering if there is any news to share, or if there will be some sort of a newsletter at the end of the year with more info?

 

Hope all is well and looking forward to the F-8!

I would think it's safe to assume, that there will be some sort of newsletter on this before the end of the year.

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/englis...49#post6453549

It's been 6 weeks and no news yet.

 

It's been 6 weeks and no news yet.

That's true. I posted it to show that an update is or at least was planned for both the Corsair and the Crusader. Hiromachi mentioned he is waiting on some artwork hence the delay. I assume it is still going to happen at the very least before the new year.

 

It's been 6 weeks and no news yet.

So, just wait a bit longer. It's not as if we have something we can even pre-order, yet.

 

It's been 6 weeks and no news yet.

There was an interview by GR on magnitude

On 3/9/2019 at 4:27 AM, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

 

This is how badly I am the target for this:

 

I'd actually prefer the French version, even with its limitations. It's cool though, I'll take any Crusader, really. French Aeronavale Crusaders were pretty damn sexy, though. The perfect solution would be to just offer the Magics on the F-8 we get so it can pose as a French Crusader. MiG-21bis can't launch the Grom in reality and HB are considering letting the F-14 use R-73s, IIRC.

 

 

I saw them flying in Bretagne, Les monts d'Arree, they were doing some limited aerobatics just over the village where I was living, but in any case, I always could hear them taking off from Landivisiau, from the top of the mountains on a clear day we could see the coast...

The F-8 have been my favourite fighter for as long as I played Strike fighter II with some interresting settings, like unlimited amo, no missiles (guns only) with tons of Mig-17, 19 and 21 to take down, I am not sure its flight envelop and characteristics were accurate in Strike fighter II but flown as it should, you can yoyo Mig 17s easily and take them down.

I'll add this one to my collection for sure, hope we have a French Navy version too...

I would love to climb into F-8 cockpit some day  

18 hours ago, Hiromachi said:

I would love to climb into F-8 cockpit some day  

I would already be happy to climb in a virtual F-8

On 11/25/2020 at 7:48 AM, ustio said:

 

There was an interview by GR on magnitude

 

 

The F-8J's ViW had only 5° of incidence. Just like the F-8E(FN).

Edit:

I guess they'll have to chose a technical configuration.

I think AFC 544 should be the configuration to go for.

Decreased flap and aileron-droop should make for better wave-off capabilities.

I think we are getting the latest and greatest F8J with the 420 engine and APQ-124 radar + AIM-9G capability.

Not just the Aim-9G, IIRC the F-8J could use the Aim-9H

On 3/8/2019 at 5:14 PM, Surrexen said:

I'd be down for a crusader in my hangar

I wasn’t in VFP-62 during the Cuban Crisis, but I was in 1966-67 as a photographer’s mate.  I have always wanted to fly the Crusader.  Sooner the better.

Carrier operations on the deck of WW2 Essex Class - USS Shangri-La in year 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.

With takeoffs and landings of the first, lightweight F-8A Crusaders being quite new, in service from 1957 (notice lector still calls it "F8U" along with the older Navy designation changed in the same 1962)

There are also A-4D Skyhawks light attack planes, F4D Skyray high altitude interceptors with huge lift to mass.

(Make sure you selected 1080P since video has great quality for 1962, year of Cuban missile crisis, it's way before Vietnam.)

13 hours ago, bies said:

Carrier operations on the deck of WW2 Essex Class - USS Shangri-La in year 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

 

 

Nice video - really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for sharing.

Was that Burl Ives doing the narrating??

On 12/27/2020 at 9:47 AM, Hiromachi said:

I would love to climb into F-8 cockpit some day  

FYI there is a cockpit trainer you can get in at Tillamook Air Museum in OR. Its a bit worn and missing some dials, but likely one of the only opportunities.

On 2/9/2021 at 5:16 AM, bies said:

Carrier operations on the deck of WW2 Essex Class - USS Shangri-La in year 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

With takeoffs and landings of the first, lightweight F-8A Crusaders being quite new, in service from 1957 (notice lector still calls it "F8U" along with the older Navy designation changed in the same 1962)

 

There are also A-4D Skyhawks light attack planes, F4D Skyray high altitude interceptors with huge lift to mass.

(Make sure you selected 1080P since video has great quality for 1962, year of Cuban missile crisis, it's way before Vietnam.)

 

 

 

Interesting to see the Crusaders taking off in dry power. I guess it helps that they were flying clean.

On 2/10/2021 at 12:57 AM, AG-51_Razor said:

Was that Burl Ives doing the narrating??

It's a part of "Flying Clipper" from 1962.

34 minutes ago, TLTeo said:

Interesting to see the Crusaders taking off in dry power. I guess it helps that they were flying clean.

This, plus they are F-8A - first lightest variant with the smallest wing loading.