{"id":173355938,"date":"2026-01-10T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casey.com\/blog\/?p=173355938"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:33:42","slug":"take-a-ride-in-an-f-8-crusader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2026\/01\/10\/take-a-ride-in-an-f-8-crusader\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Ride in an F-8 Crusader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found this film among our family&#8217;s home movies while taking on the task of digitizing them. Initially I assumed that my father, William Casey, must have taken them. But after I shared a link to this film with the F-8 Crusader Association, I received the below email from Gary Williams with the actual story of this footage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Chris, Good morning, I received the email from the Crusader Association which included your letter and the attached video. I knew your father while in VF-211 on the Hancock in 69-70. it was during that time frame, I took the movies you discovered. I had given copies to several pilots and your father must have been one of them. I am glad they survived the test of time. I later met your father (if my memory is correct) while he was a test pilot at McDonnell Douglas working on the new C-17 project and he gave me a tour of the aircraft. My sympathies to you for his passing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best personal regards, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gary Williams (Hotfoot) <br>(VF-211 \u201868=\u201970)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iWgKJgUvBcs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this film among our family&#8217;s home movies while taking on the task of digitizing them. Initially I assumed that my father, William Casey, must have taken them. But after I shared a link to this film with the F-8 Crusader Association, I received the below email from Gary Williams with the actual story of this footage. &#8212; Chris,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173355938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-bJnNw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173355938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173355976,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355938\/revisions\/173355976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173355938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173355938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173355938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}