Keywords: E-1B VAW-11launch CVA-19.jpg A Grumman WF-2 Tracer of airborne early warning squadron VAW-11 Early Eleven Carrier Air Group Twenty-One CVG-21 launching from the aircraft carrier USS Hancock CVA-19 on 23 August 1962 A Vought F8U-1 Crusader BuNo 145404 assigned to fighter squadron VF-211 Fighting Checkmates moves up to be launched from the starboard catapult Note the launching cable at the end of the port catapult and the ones on the right side of the flight deck The WF-2 would be redesignated E-1B under the new joint designation system a month later the F8U-1 would become the F-8A www navsource org http //www navsource org/archives/02/021939 jpg 1962-08-23 Robert M Cieri USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Grumman E-1 Tracer Aboard USS Hancock CV-19 F-8A Crusader Aircraft carrier take offs Fighter Squadron 211 United States Navy Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 United States Navy |