In addition to the aircrafts development and testing, each book covers squadron histories, insignias, flight and maintenance manual excerpts, sea stories, if applicable, and model. The vought f7u cutlass was a united states navy carrierbased jet fighter and fighterbomber of the early cold war era. This page was last edited on 30 december 2018, at 06. The shocking resurrection of the f15 p38 lightning a history of ww2 in. It was a tailless aircraft for which aerodynamic data from projects of the german arado and messerschmitt companies, obtained at the end of world war ii through german scientists who worked on the projects, contributed. Former messerschmitt ag senior designer waldemar voigt, who supervised the development of numerous experimental jet fighters in nazi. The vought f7u cutlass carrierbased jet fighter was one of the most unusual designs ever produced for the united states navy usn. Of the 288 f7u 3 variants built, 98 were built as f7u 3m with another 48 f7u 3 airframes converted to the f7u 3m standard. Musciano and kitted by scientific models in the united states owned by mr. Quote this is one of a series of semiscale models designed by walter a. Chance voughtltv history the university of texas at dallas. The vought f7u cutlass was based on tailless aircraft design work done by the arado company during wwii. Navy vought f8u crusader 1p reconnaissance aircraft. Gutless was the cutlass or was voughts f7u something.
Project cutlass jan van waarde 2010 military aviation aircraft. The vought f7u cutlass would be host to the following first time achievements for any naval aircraft. The vought f8 crusader originally f8u was a singleengine, supersonic, carrierbased air superiority jet aircraft built by vought for the united states navy and marine corps, replacing the vought f7u cutlass, and for the french navy. Project cutlass jan van waarde 2010 free download as pdf file. Chance voughtltv history university of texas at dallas. Always seen as a stopgap, the aircraft suffered from a lack of development of its radar and electronics. My uncle disappeared flying one these in march of 1949 over the chesapeake. Read online now chance vought f7u 1 cutlass ebook pdf at our library. The vought f7u cutlass was a united states navy carrierbased jet fighter and. The cutlass was a sweptwing tailless singleseat carrierborne fighter which entered service with the us navy in several versions from 1952. The vought f7u cutlass was an american cold warera naval fighter and the first sweptwing usn fighter to be adopted into service as well as the first tailless american fighter aircraft. Vought f7u cutlass images gallery detailing the carrierborne fighter aircraft below are images of the vought f7u cutlass carrierborne fighter aircraft. Lets have a look at one of the us navys dullest moments in developing and buying fighters. Chance vought f7u cutlass naval fighters series no 6 repost free epub, mobi, pdf ebooks download, ebook torrents download.
From july 23 to august 14, 1951, he performed carrier suitability tests of the cutlass on board the uss midway. Twelve unarmed f7u 3p photo planes in 195455 never became operational, but are included in the cutlass total of 307. It was a highly unusual, semitailless design, allegedly based on aerodynamic data and plans captured from the german arado company at the end of world war ii, though vought designers denied any link to the german research at the time. Vought f7u cutlass fighters war thunder official forum. Vought delivered the last of 98 new f7u 3ms august 12, 1955, and va83 made the first overseas deployment on intrepid to the mediterranean of a navy missile squadron in march 1956, when 11 cutlass squadrons were operating. In recent years, nasa has made its historical series of technical reports available for download from its. Irreplaceable reference for modelers and aviation fans. One for the old school, lindberg f7u 1 cutlass wip posted by usmc6094 on tuesday, march 25. F7u cutlass us navy aircraft, us military aircraft. Most of these models had carved balsa fuselages, one piece wing and all accessories except engine, paint and glue. Ill try to attach a 1956 version of the f7u3 manual. He said the f7u1 cutlass, recalls feightner, at the time a navy test pilot with the. Appendix iii the chronological development of the vought f4u corsair. Chance vought f7u cutlass naval fighters series no 6.
An airplane i would like to request is the vought f7u3m, missile capable us navy jet fighter. No operational history, beyond a couple of brief pilot summaries of experiences. The f7u was designed in the 1950s as a tailless fighter for the usn. Al casby is the owner of two f7u cutlass airframes, which.
It has been downloaded 35 times by fellow modelers from around the world. Appendix iii the chronological development of the vought f4u corsair appendix iv vought f8 crusader statistics appendix v aircraft vought aeronautics modified, reconditioned or helped build appendix vi bibliography and other acknowledgements. I was too young to realize the troubled history of the aircraft. The vought f7u cutlass was a sweptwing tailless singleseat carrierborne fighter which entered service with the us navy in several versions from 1952. Chance vought f7u cutlass multirole fighter x tier 1. Lockheed martins f35abc lightning ii gets more than its fair share of bad press these days. In september 1952, feightner returned to flight test as the development officer for. Everyones favorite, the gutless cutlass vought f7u 3m, in either 1955 or 1956. Feightner was assigned as the navys project pilot for the vought f7u cutlass, a carrierbased jet fighterbomber with swept wings and an unusual tailless design. Because of development problems with the powerplant, however, the f7u2 would never be built, while the f7u3 would incorporate many. A copy of the an 0145hfc2 maintenance instructions handbook for the vought f7u 3 cutlass aircraft, dated 1 november 1954.
Because of the performance capabilities and flightpath stability of the f7u 3, it was selected for the photo reconnaissance mission and designated f7u 3p. It was a modified version of the f7u 3 with all armament provisions deleted. It was used for the cold war, from american aircraft carriers. The chance vought cutlass was probably the most radical fighter aircraft to ever achieve fleet service.
The vought f7u cutlass is a navalized fighter aircraft that served in the u. A vought f7u cutlass restoration is on its way to fly again one day, thanks to the efforts of project cutlass. The first f8 prototype was ready for flight in february 1955. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. It was the first production naval aircraft to achieve supersonic flight, the first to release bombs at a speed greater than the speed of sound a. In operational service, the cutlass lack of power and poor reliability led many squadrons to beach their aircraft not go to sea or beach them in midcruise. Here is the vought f7u cutlass modelers online reference onestop resource for photos and kits. Further development stopped once the vought f8u crusader flew. Get chance vought f7u 1 cutlass pdf file for free from our online library pdf file.
Vought f7u cutlass simple english wikipedia, the free. The chance vought f7u cutlass was the most radical fighter design ever to achieve fleet service. Gutless was the cutlass or was vought s f7u something better. Chance vought f7u 1 cutlass available for download and read online in other formats. Vought f7u cutlass images gallery military factory. It was very innovative in that the conventional horizontal tail was eliminated to avoid the extreme nosedown forces experienced by conventional airplanes at speeds above mach 0.
Please note that project cutlass is not mentioned in these histories apart. Here is the access download page of chance vought f7u 1 cutlass pdf, click this link to download or read online. The material covered is true to the title, it covers the development history, though not in any great depth, up to the point of operational service then stops. The fighter looked futuristic, slick and the pilot sat high with a commanding view all around. Some vought f7u cutlass were modified for aerial reconnaissance as f7u 3p. Click through the available thumbnails to enlarge the images. Alkire xo of the vf124 stingarees was killed in the. In late 1945 chance vought took this design data and refined it. Fs2004 vought f7u 3 cutlass type complete with base model download hits 3,308 compatibility filename f7u3v2. The naval fighters series is dedicated to preserving americas naval aviation history. Notable design features include no horizontal stabilizer, two engines, and twin rudders.
The was a development of the replacing the piston engines of the with two general electric engines of lbf kn thrust each. Somebody should have terminated development after the first model, but having passed up. Operational history ramp strike of vought f7u 3 cutlass 412 of vf124 on hancock, 14 july 1955. In scanning through the text it was more like reading a technical manual than anything else. The result was a wing with a sweepback of 38 degrees, a very low 3. The type led a troubled developmental existence and an even more troubled service life to the point that only a few hundred aircraft were procured and. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. In the spring of 1954, after six years of flight testing, three carrier suitability trials, and almost a decade of development, the first of f7u 3 cutlass fleet squadrons became operational. Each monographs size is dictated by the individual aircrafts own history. Designed as the companys entry in a 1945 carrierbased jet fighter design competition requiring capability to fly at 600 miles per hour 970 kmh at 40,000 feet 12,000 m, the aircraft featured broadchord, low aspect ratio, swept wings, with a wingmounted. Development of the cutlass started in 1948 and the rst f7u1, 122472. Fisher model and pattern 2 f7u3m cutlass kit first look. In the early jet age, pilots had good reason to fear the f7u.
Everyones favorite, the gutless cutlass vought f7u3m. About the vought f7u 3 cutlass plan this plan is 1. In the early jet age, pilots had good reason to fear the f7u military. The vought f7u cutlass page contains all related products, articles, books, walkarounds and plastic scale modeling projects dedicated to this aircraft. This page was last edited on 26 november 2014, at 06. The book gives much more weight to the xf7u1 f7u 1 aircraft 17 of them than on the more numerous 3. Feightner survived a number of nearfatal incidents in the cutlass. I vividly recall, as a boy, when i saw the vought f7u cutlass model kit. The vought f7u cutlass was a united states navy carrierbased jet fighter and fighterbomber. It was the first tailless airplane to go into production in the united states, the first jet fighter in the u. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Here is a link to the drawings scaled to 148 in pdf format. Project cutlass vought f7u restoration the warbird watcher. The gutless cutless earned its nickname primarily from its underpowered engines.
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