Some were pretty bad, but none were nearly that bad. The B-58 Hustler lost 22% of its airframes, the F7U Cutlass 25%, the F-104 Starfighter in German service lost 33%. And those were outliers.
replyYou're right, those numbers are from the F-8 but include non-total-loss accidents.
replyI don't think the numbers you quoted are outliers, though. The F-100 lost ~900 out of 2,300. The F-106 lost ~120/342. That's a pretty big list of planes with a 1/5-1/3 loss rate.
You should go back even a little further, the USPS air mail service lost 31 of the first 40 pilots.
replyBack in the days where the plan was "So we've built literal signal fires and giant concrete arrows and well, good luck, it won't help"
replyHave you ever listened to Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters"?
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