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Image L59-6101 is available as an electronic file from the photo lab. See URL. -- Photographed on: 09/10/59. -- Crusader on runway. Navy aircraft number 6340. L59-6101 caption: "The navy's Vought XF8U-3 Supersonic Fighter was an entirely new design as compared to the earlier F8U Crusader series. This jet plane lost in competition with the McDonnell F4H, however, and was never put into production. Langley used the XF8U-3 in some of the first flight measurements of sonic boom intensity." Photograph published in Engineer in Charge A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 507. Caption: "Chance Vought F8U-3 airplane used in sonic boom investigation at Wallops, June-August 1959." Photograph published in A New Dimension; Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication. Page 672.Free picture F8U-3 aircraft integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
