[lanslide]

Good analogy LM!

Originally Posted by Lakota Mech

Two completly different airframes. Think Ford explorer and Ford Expedtion.

[tripoli]

Yep, but we the reall techy collectors that will notice the finer detailing. To those that purchase these more on the impulse, they will look very similar which may make the F-8 a harder sell to the majority public market. That is why I believe we may see something else. Although, no one really has done the
F-8 yet and I would love to see CW do it before anyone else decided to snatch up the market with it. And it may be the majority CW market is more of a specialty group than mass market. I don't really have a good feel for this military model market as of yet.
I am really wondering as well how well Gemini Jets will do with the F-4, because that is the one next I would have really like to seen CW do. But that GJ's will probably make it unlikely for quite some time if at all for the next few years I would think.

[lanslide]

A-8 Expedition or F-8 Crusader?

[David Hingtgen]

The A-7 and F-8 share landing gear (sometimes). Otherwise, they're different planes. It's a lot like the KC-135, and 707. They may look awfully similar, but you can't swap parts. (except, again, the landing gear---and sometimes engines and stabs).

More importantly, the F-8 looks WAY cooler, is way FASTER, and has far more interesting paint schemes than the A-7. And it's got the best kill record of any fighter in Vietnam.

[tripoli]

Edited it to F-8, which tell you how much I associate the two. lol
I don't know, for reasons up above, I think it could go either way. What say you oh wise ones of aviation collecting on those points?

[lanslide]

Well - the A-7 and F-8 do share the same manufacturer and look somewhat similar. The A-7 is a refinement of the F-8 but, like the F6F and F4F before them, are completely different aircraft. I want an F-8 badly!

[Rush104]

Originally Posted by David Hingtgen

The A-7 and F-8 share landing gear (sometimes). Otherwise, they're different planes. It's a lot like the KC-135, and 707. They may look awfully similar, but you can't swap parts. (except, again, the landing gear---and sometimes engines and stabs).

You might be able to swap engines between the 707 and the 135, but not between the F-8 and the A-7.

[David Hingtgen]

My last comment was purely for the KC-135 and 707. Engines, gear, and stabs. For A-7 and F-8, it's gear only.

lanslide--you've got it backwards. The A-7 came from the F-8. It was one of the design requirements of the Navy----no "completely new" designs---it had to be based off proven tech/aerodynamics. So Grumman's, Douglas', and Vought's proposals for the YF-7 were all heavily based off existing planes. Basically just a "Super Skyhawk", and "Mini Intruder". The A-7 however, was even more different from the F-8 than the Super Hornet is from the Hornet. It's almost all-new, it just retains the basic shape of the F-8. But it LOOKED like just a mini-Crusader, so it fit the requirements. (But by being actually almost all-new, it far outperformed the other rehashed designs)

Ironically, the ultimate A-7, the A-7F, was a stretched, afterburning A-7. Which REALLY looked like an F-8. Only prototypes built though.

[Rush104]

Originally Posted by David Hingtgen

My last comment was purely for the KC-135 and 707. Engines, gear, and stabs. For A-7 and F-8, it's gear only.

lanslide--you've got it backwards. The A-7 came from the F-8. It was one of the design requirements of the Navy----no "completely new" designs---it had to be based off proven tech/aerodynamics. So Grumman's, Douglas', and Vought's proposals for the YF-7 were all heavily based off existing planes. Basically just a "Super Skyhawk", and "Mini Intruder". The A-7 however, was even more different from the F-8 than the Super Hornet is from the Hornet. It's almost all-new, it just retains the basic shape of the F-8. But it LOOKED like just a mini-Crusader, so it fit the requirements. (But by being actually almost all-new, it far outperformed the other rehashed designs)

Ironically, the ultimate A-7, the A-7F, was a stretched, afterburning A-7. Which REALLY looked like an F-8. Only prototypes built though.

Well, there won't be any USMC liveries. They went for upgraded A-4s.

[David Hingtgen]

But there are many very neat-looking Marines F-8's. Shamrocks, Death Angels, Lancers, and ironically, the Crusaders.