[Candor7]

Work horses of the USN fo so many years. I guess they had the rep of being a good carrier landing AC.Not much room inside these puppies...cramped or what?

[magslinger]

The cockpit was pretty well loaded with instruments and hard to get comfortable in for a nap. OTOH the intake had plenty of room for a man to stretch out. Be sure to leave a wake up call with the front desk for well before flight quarters, though. You wouldn't want to try carrying anything there either. There was a safety cartoon featuring a picture of a shark jawed A-7. It read "Little jets have big appetites."

I never saw one get in trouble on recovery. I did see a couple have problems taking off. With the first, it was strictly a catapult malfunction. The ejection seat didn't operate the way the salesman said it would, either. The other was a shore takeoff and the air brake deployed as soon as he got the weight off the wheels. The seat didn't function quite right either, but the pilot limped away from that one.