The Vought F-8 Crusader was a successful carrier-based fighter, serving the US and French Navies until 1999. Known as "The Last of the Gunfighters," it was the final carrier-based jet equipped ...
The French Navy selected the F-8 Crusader in the early 1960s to equip its carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, because the newer F-4 Phantom was too large for their decks. Designated the F-8E(FN), the ...