On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:02:16 -0700, "a425couple"
postulated :

I have a old question, maybe someone can refute, or verify?

I tend to mistrust 'sea-stories' w.o. cites. Sometimes I think
they likely true, probably partly true, or unlikely.
But some good ones stick in my mind, from all categories.


My friend Kit from the 50s provided some more remembrances regarding
folding wing take offs:

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I recall VF-102 from our very own Air Wing 8, on board
FORRESTAL, during one of the many Med Cruises I endured,
taking off from Naples AERFER, and landing safely back at
the air strip in an F-8 Crusader. It did break one of the uplocks on
the wing, but they fixed it, and it made it back to the ship in a
couple of days.

VF-84 also had one out of Rota flying F-8s..

KIT

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So it appears that there were more than one F-8 Crusaders attempting
flight with folded wings.