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Description
| Manufacturer: | Vought | |
| Base model: | F-8 | |
| Designation: | F-8 | |
| Version: | H | |
| Nickname: | Crusader | |
| Equivalent to: | F-8D | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
| Basic role: | Fighter | |
| First Flew: | 1960/02/16 | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 54' 3" | 16.5 m | |
| Height: | 15' 9" | 4.8 m | |
| Wingspan: | 35' 8" | 10.8 m | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney J57-P-20 | ||
| Thrust (each): | 17,500 lb | 7,936 kg | |
Performance
| Max Speed: | 1,322 mph | 2,128 km/h | 1,150 kt |
Recent comments by our visitors
| MARK VINAS Las Pinas, Manila, OTH | Philippines had one of the best airforces in Asia before, I think that was 60s-80s. When I visited the Villamor airbase in Manila last month (August 2008), I saw an F-8 crusader inside the museum together with other jets like f-5 and f-86 sabre and other sorties like Hueys and whatsoever with of course an insignia of the Philippine Air Force. And obviously, they never fly and they have empty engines. I even saw a cat with its kittens inside the fuselage of the f-5 freedom fighter sleeping soundly. They're so cute hehe. What a shame on us. OMG. Several F-8's and F-5s are in storage in Clark Airbase. Most of them stink. S211s are the remaining jets in our country and they are dwindling. We just use turbo-propped planes like the OV-10 and the SF-260 with cannons and 250 - 500 bombs on the sponsons or should I say below the fuselage to fight insurgents that lair in the very far southern part of the Philippines.
-markiejewel@yahoo.com 09/03/2008 @ 02:07 [ref: 22601] |
| MARK VINAS Las Pinas, Manila, OTH | Philippines had one of the best airforces in Asia before, I think that was 60s-80s. When I visited the Villamor airbase in Manila last month (August 2008), I saw an F-8 crusader inside the museum together with other jets like f-5 and f-86 sabre and other sorties like Hueys and whatsoever with of course an insignia of the Philippine Air Force. And obviously, they never fly and they have empty engines. I even saw a cat with its kittens inside the fuselage of the f-5 freedom fighter sleeping soundly. They're so cute hehe. What a shame on us. OMG. Several F-8's and F-5s are in storage in Clark Airbase. Most of them stink. S211s are the remaining jets in our country and they are dwindling. We just use turbo-propped planes like the OV-10 and the SF-260 with cannons and 250 - 500 bombs on the sponsons or should I say below the fuselage to fight insurgents that lair in the very far southern part of the Philippines.
-markiejewel@yahoo.com 09/03/2008 @ 02:06 [ref: 22600] |
| MARK VINAS Las Pinas, Manila, OTH | Philippines had one of the best airforces in Asia before, I think that was 60s-80s. When I visited the Villamor airbase in Manila last month (August 2008), I saw an F-8 crusader inside the museum together with other jets like f-5 and f-86 sabre and other sorties like Hueys and whatsoever with of course an insignia of the Philippine Air Force. And obviously, they never fly and they have empty engines. I even saw a cat with its kittens inside the fuselage of the f-5 freedom fighter sleeping soundly. They're so cute hehe. What a shame on us. OMG. Several F-8's and F-5s are in storage in Clark Airbase. Most of them stink. S211s are the remaining jets in our country and they are dwindling. We just use turbo-propped planes like the OV-10 and the SF-260 with cannons and 250 - 500 bombs on the sponsons or should I say below the fuselage to fight insurgents that lair in the very far southern part of the Philippines.
-markiejewel@yahoo.com 09/03/2008 @ 02:06 [ref: 22599] |
| Dominique Banaga Bacolod, SK | Well have to admit our Airforce suck. They said they\\\'re going to get F-16 as well as one KC-10 Tanker aircraft. But NO.........
One Philippine senator stopped the deal with Lockheed when they were about to buy F-16A/B aircraft saying, \\\"We reject your offer......We want the F-16C/D versions.\\\" For me that was some bullsh*t. They\\\'re still the same for Christ\\\'s Sake. And also I would like to say it again: Philippine Air Force aircraft are \\\"Widow Makers\\\" and \\\"Flying Coffins\\\" 08/29/2008 @ 06:21 [ref: 22576] |
| JE_BULOY London, BC | how pity the PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE doesnt have operational
jet Fighters this day... they have only the name PHILIPPINES but no "AIR FORCE"... Please stop corruption on AFP just look how "OUR MILITARY" suffering from disgusted and disgrraced "OFFICiALS"... just look on the glorious years of mid-60s that the PAF known as the best AIR FORCE in Southeast Asia.. 04/13/2008 @ 13:33 [ref: 20535] |
| brian correa , AL | f-8 shows the supremacy of the PAF in those years. but now, PAF was left behind in modernization. 03/01/2008 @ 03:51 [ref: 19830] |
| mario j. , OTH | its a pity that the F-8s of the phil air force didnt see
long years of service......its one of the best jets PAF had ever had. 12/06/2006 @ 02:56 [ref: 14926] |
| pj aranda tarlac, tarlac, OTH | The best fighter flown by the Philippine Air Force 12/12/2005 @ 07:53 [ref: 11962] |
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