F8 Crusader green run

[hammerogod]

Duck under the intake...Duck under the intake.

I spent 4 years working almost exclusively with A4s and F8s.

F8s are, by far, the most interesting aircraft I have ever had first hand experience with.

Your mini-me F8 is too cool for words.

OH..wear ear protection.

[Flyingwigs]

these things are SO LOUD in person, videos do not do them justice as to how realistic they actually sound.

[hammerogod]

@Flyingwigs

IRL the sound is not noise anymore...it's a physical thing.

An F8 sitting on the catapult with the engine run all the way up is a force of nature...like lightning or an earthquake.

[TechnicalFreak]

How much lbs of thrust does that engine provide?

[TheWiseTorsk]

@TechnicalFreak about 38lbs at 118.000rpm

[SuperAncientmariner]

Don't you wear ear defenders over there?

[GRATZIANI2002]

jump on and make o turn around!..

[datzfast]

nice project

[nickiownu]

Where did u get the Model kit for this airplane ?....The F8 is one of my alltime favorites and id love to build a scale model

[Jorge1396]

boooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

[terminator363]

FLY THE DAMN THING!!!!

[viper08v10]

it going to fly with no wigs right

[speedstakerguy]

lol kool try to fly it up verticly

[kg4yvw]

LAST OF THE GUNFIGHTERS

[Jaliya48]

You said it! A real star aircraft

[KamikazeElvis]

I don't be teaching you to suck eggs but you're gonna need some wings on that thing if you wanna see it fly.

[hardcoretothabone]

drive it mtf

[fourfortyroadrunner]

Good luck on your great project. Plenty of those when I was at Miramar--our RADAR shop was off the end of the "bore sight" gun range for sighting in the F8's

[batvette]

@fourfortyroadrunner I was an AQ in VF-21 '80-83 (Phantoms, S and N PQS cert) and when we weren't on the Coral Sea we were in hangar 1, where a Crusader with a bailed out pilot crashed killing I think 8 10 years prior.

Miramar's boneyard had the blue angels skyhawk that hit the runway inverted practicing the high speed close pass in '78, what a mess it was.

[Knightewolfe]

Wicked cool. Now if only somebody would do the same for an RA-5C Vigilante or an F-20 Tigershark. Then those would be cool. cool as this Crusader in 1:6 scale.

I can't wait to see the vid of the first flight.

KW.

[selby06]

wow, listen to that audio heterodyne -- from the different stages of the turbine running at different RPMs ...sounds like inter-station RF heterodyne on AM or shortwave

[ironroad18]

Too Cool! I didn't know they made RC F-8s. I have to get into the RC jet hobby. Btw, do you have video of the first flight?