Vought F-8 Crusader

to see the ball at that point, right? And the Navy has done some extraordinary things.

Anybody who remembers the F-8 Crusader, the whole wing tilted in order for you to be able to see across what was a pretty short nose, given her landing speeds and the like.

How important is a distinction like that when you're transitioning to really automatic automated blending aids, like magic carpet or what the F 35 can do.

I mean, the F 35 can drop its hook with such precision.

But now American aircraft were also going in at very low level.

Air Force RF-101 Voodoos and Navy RF-8 Crusaders came screaming across the island, taking detailed photographs of the missile sites, sometimes so low that the men on the ground could actually see the pilots clearly from their cockpits.

From an intelligence point of view, it made perfect sense.

Washington desperately needed to know how quickly those missiles were becoming ready to fire.

What did I draw?

Is, is this an F-8? Is that a Corsair?

Yeah, that's a Corsair.

That's a-

F4U.

[laughs]

Oh, F- or not the F-8.

F-8 Bearcat.

Do both wings look like that? They have the same shape?

It's the, um, the same, they have the same shape of wing as the, uh, the old F8 Crusader.

But, but on-

On your tattoo

I was at Air and Space Museum out at Udvar-Hazy, and I did the count, and the Navy and Marine Corps absolutely dominate the modern air power section.

They've got the F-14, the F-8, the F-4 Phantom, the A-6, EA-6B, and an F-18.

They've got the X-35 Marine Corps demonstrator.

Good on them for owning the concrete.

What's that one, brother?

That one looks like an F8 Crusader.

That is an F8 Crusader.

That was the first demonstrator, I think, of the...

It's not the blended wing.