Re: Ever Wish We'd Built The YF-23??

CCBlack
The F8U-3 had superb handling characteristics.  The F-4 flew like a
truck.  What does that prove ?  Obviously the Navy wanted - two pilots
- two engines.

Ed Rasimus wrote:
Dunno what your truck flies like, but the Phantom was quite agile for
the period in question. The F-8 (and presumably the upgraded F8U-3)
had notorious sensitivity coming aboard the boat. Most guys who flew
the Crusader take great pride in having mastered it. Certainly agile
in close-in fighting, but no prize winner on approach.

Well Ed ... you said in your own book ' Palace Cobra ' :

" The F-4 had adverse yaw issues "

During F-4 training ... " with the inevitable stick guarding by the
instructors, left a distinct impression that the F-4 was not a very
agile airplane "

" We could deliver the iron at a long distance. What we didn't have
was turn rate and turn radius. If we tried to out-turn the MiG, it
didn't matter whether it was a -17,a -19, or a -21, we would lose "

Your right the Crusader was a handful around the boat. In fact it had
the highest landing accident rate ( then and now ) of any U.S. Navy
jet fighter.

However ... the F-8 was the " MiG Master " in Vietnam as well.

I wonder ... in a " what if " situation ... how the -3 Super Crusader
would have done in Vietnam. With the same engine as the F-105 and
-106 ... but without the wing loading of the Thud ... and without the
high drag of a delta wing in a turn as the F-106.

Chris
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