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F-100 Super Sabre vs F-8 Crusader
In 1952 the US NAVY had a tender for a carrier based supersonic plane.
The Vought and North American companies compete as each one proposed it's plane. North American offered a naval version of the Super Sabre and Vought offered the Crusader. The Crusader won and for a reason !!!
Both planes had the same J57 engine with almost the same specs. but the Crusader was much speedier and was a better interceptor as proved in Vietnam war where Crusaders had 19 migs
that were shootdown including 3 mig -21's while the Super sabre had only 1 suspected mig -17 kill.
Again the better aerodinamic design of a plane proved to be a wining factor on the overall plane performance.
Yair
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