F8 & RF8 Crusader in Detail & Scale (Detail & Scale Series),Used

Detail & Scale produced its first book on the F8 Crusader in 1988, and it was one of the most successful titles in the Detail & Scale Series. This new work, F8 & RF8 Crusader in Detail & Scale, brings our original work forward 31 years, enriched with much new content, more photos, mostly in color, and the addition of dozens of illustrations and full color profiles. The photographic collections of some of the very best aviation photographers have been opened to Detail & Scale, and several recognized experts have also contributed to this new book, resulting in a new, more comprehensive, and much larger publication on the Crusader.The book begins with a comprehensive developmental and operational history of the Crusader, a jet fighter that achieved a number of firsts and went a long way towards bringing Naval carrierbased fighters to a level equal to and in some cases surpassing that of landbased fighters. This is followed by a chapter covering every variant of the Crusader produced for the U. S. Navy and Marines, from the prototypes, all of the F8A/B/C/D/E variants and their upgraded versions after the remanufacture program, the twoseat TF8A, both the original and remanufactured versions of the RF8 photo reconnaissance variant, and the XF8U3 prototype, often considered the best aircraft ever cancelled. Chapters on the F8s used by NASA in advanced flight research and the Crusaders used by the French Navy and the Philippine Air Force follow.An area of wholly new content is contained in a chapter on the Crusader in the Vietnam War. A summary of how the Navy and Marines used the F8 and RF8 in Vietnam is provided, including a listing of every fighter squadron that flew the Crusader in combat. A comprehensive table lists all of the F8 carrier deployments carried out by the Navy fighter squadrons as well as the Marine squadrons that flew out of Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam. The chapter concludes with color photographs and full color profiles of all nineteen F8s responsible for the confirmed destruction of MiGs in air combat.A comprehensive chapter on Crusader Details, long the hallmark of the Detail & Scale brand, follows. This chapter contains nine sections covering the cockpit, windscreen and canopy, fuselage, landing gear, wings, tail, engine, armament, and ECM equipment details. Complete coverage of almost every square inch of the various variants of the Crusader is provided through 136 high resolution photographs and illustrations (123 in full color).As with all Detail & Scale books, the final chapter covers the scale models of the Crusader, from the early kits that are now only collectors items, to the gamut of kits that have been available for the past halfcentury. The standard modeling scales of 1/144th, 1/72nd, 1/48th, and 1/32nd are treated as separate sections and the available models in are reviewed.F8 & RF8 Crusader in Detail & Scale is an extensively detailed look at the F8 Crusader, with more color photos of this iconic Navy fighter than any other book ever published. This print edition features 105 pages, 259 high resolution photographs (239 in color), 25 full color profiles and 19 Illustrations.