In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
I want to know what the "cheek bulges" on the side of the forward
fuselage are all about.

If memory serves, the Crusader had a single bulge -- one side only --
because its otherwise quite skillful designers had somehow neglected to
provide space for a retractable flight-refueling probe, and somewhere
between the design freeze and the production order, the USN decided to
insist on having one.
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