Or remember the poster:
"When you are out of F-8s you are out of fighters!"
with a tear in the eye of a fighter pilot?

WDA

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Lynn in StLou wrote:

Charles Talleyrand wrote:

What's the best naval fighter of 1963? The mission is pure air
defense, with not a pound for air to ground.

Not suprisingly, most web sites talk about modern planes and don't
describe the tactics and equipment of this era.


Barret Tillman's book Mig Master tells the story of a social event
where a Soviet official
was asked what aircraft the Soviets respected the most. The Soviet
official chose the F-8 as it
could appear nearly anywhere in the world and establish air superiority.

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