F-8 Crusader
F-8 Crusader (upphaflega F8U) er bandarísk eins hreyfils orrustuþota sem var framleidd af Vought. Hún leysti af hólmi Vought F-7 Cutlass. Fyrstu tilraunagerðinni af F-8 var flogið í febrúar árið 1955. Hún var síðasta bandaríska orrustuþotan sem hafði vélbyssu sem meginvopn. Þotan var notuð í Víetnamstríðinu.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/F-8E_VMF-212_CVA-34_1965_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-F-8E_VMF-212_CVA-34_1965_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Vought_F-8_ECN-3276.jpg/250px-Vought_F-8_ECN-3276.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Vought_F-8E_Crusader_3-view_line_drawing.svg/250px-Vought_F-8E_Crusader_3-view_line_drawing.svg.png)
Ítarefni
breyta- Grant, Zalin. Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam (Pocket Books, 1988).
- Grossnick, Roy A. og William J. Armstrong. United States Naval Aviation, 1910–1995 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Historical Center, 1997).
- Mersky, Peter. F-8 Cusader Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1998).
Tenglar
breytaWikimedia Commons er með margmiðlunarefni sem tengist F-8 Crusader.