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COAST-TO-COAST, CARRIER-TO-CARRIER -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was standing on the bridge of the
USS Saratoga on June 6, 1957, when two F-8 Crusaders screamed
past the carrier, broke and then dropped down to a perfect deck
landing.
The two Crusaders, piloted by CAPT Robert Dose, USN, commander
of VX-3, and LCDR Paul Miller, also from the West Coast
squadron, had completed the first ocean-to-ocean flight between
aircraft carriers in history. The flight began from the deck of
the USS Bon Homme Richard off the coast of California and ended
on the Saratoga off the Florida coast.
One inflight refueling from tankers based at Carswell AFB, Fort
Worth, Tex., was effected.
Total elapsed time for the record-setting mission was three
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THOMPSON TROPHY WINNERS - A happy CDR
R. W. "Duke" Windsor, USN, stands in the cockpit of his F8U-1
Crusader at China Lake, Calif., immediately following his
record-setting flight that earned the Thompson Trophy for the
most outstanding aviation accomplishment in 1956.
Flying a standard, production model F8U-l (F-8A) Crusader over a
15 kilometer course at China Lake on Aug. 21, 1956, Windsor set
a new national and world speed record for other than
experimental aircraft of 1.015.428 miles an hour. The previous
record had been set by an F-100 with a speed of 822.135 miles an
hour.
CDR Windsor received the Thompson Trophy during a special awards
ceremony at the National Aircraft Show in Oklahoma City, Okla.
in 1957.
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All information on this page is from special F-8
CRUSADER FIGHTER REPORT compiled by the Public Relations Department
of LTV Aerospace Corporation in 1974. |
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