On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:30:04 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Some F8A's were converted as drone control aircraft as DF8L's, but I
haven't found any info on ones that were converted to target drones as such.

I think you mean QF-8L. The designator for drones is Q and the hyphen
is part of the reformed designations system, which was put in place
just before the F-8 came online.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer