SNIP a lot

Ouch. Do you have any idea How Dangerous those things (AV-8B)
are to OUR guys?

Dan


Oops. I forgot a couple of words.

Dan

No more dangerous than the F4U, F7U or F8 were back in the day. Hard to
fly, but the rep is overblown. There have always been birds that tend to
get that dangerous label.


You may want to look at the safety records before you make such
statements...

Dan

While the F4U had problems initially with carrier landings (over the nose
visibility and strut bounce), I don't think it ever had a rep for mishaps.
The F7U was quite notorious, earned several monikers (Ensign Eater was one)
but I have no data. The F-8 had the highest mishap rate of any carrier
aircraft in the modern (angled deck) era. AIRPAC, never competitive with
AIRLANT in mishap rate, started publishing two numbers: Mishap Rate, and
Mishap Rate less F-8's (AIRLANT got out of the F-8 business several years
ahead of AIRPAC).

R / John