Thank you for visiting the page! Ships with careful packing from Japan. The F-8 Crusader is the first full-fledged practical supersonic fighter in the United States Navy. In September 1951, the U.S. Navy presented aircraft manufacturers with a proposal for a supersonic on-board fighter. At that time, it was still in the technical stage to break through the speed of sound, but on June 29, 1952, the U.S. Navy approved the proposal of Chance Boat. The first unit was named XF8U-1 and successfully made its first flight on March 25, 1955. This flight broke the speed of sound, and the first on-board Sonic Fighter in history was born.