96 pages | March 1999 | PDF | 11 Mb
(Combat Aircraft 12)
Author: Peter Mersky
Illustrator: Tom Tullis
About this book
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely presence of medium-range ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island.