A-7 Corsair II Introduction

The A-7 Corsair II born from a open spot for the US Navy in 1963 17th may, that required a subsonic attack monoplace aircraft capable of transporting a non-nuclear weapons bigger than that is loaded by the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk and, for, additional that last service. The new plane should be entering in operation predetermined in 1967 and, to achieve this mark and to reduce at maximum the costs, the Navy adjusted that as in an existent model, which made only two companies participate from the competition, one of them the Chance Vought Aircraft Incorporated, later acclaimed winning.

To attend the strict chronogram determined by the Navy, the project crew of Vought based off on the shape of Chance Vought F-8 Crusader to create the A-7 Corsair II (whose the name was took from another plane, the famous fighter plane F4U Corsair from WWII). The F-8 Crusader was a high-wing and has the property of change the angle of incidence to allow landing speeds without the aircraft takes the high nose accent. The engine air inlet is under the radome, characteristic kept in the A-7 Corsair II, but this one have a smaller wing and with fixed incidence.