Did the F-8 have a stall speed of 1.6x its landing speed? Wikipedia says that the F-8 was to have


  a landing speed of no more than 100 mph (160 km/h)


This web page says that the F-8 did have


  Stalling speed 157 mph.


The two don't explicitly discuss exactly the same thing, but I do note that e.g. the quoted cruise speed of 570 mph agrees on both. Unfortunately, neither page seems to specify the actual landing speed of the final aircraft.

From an aerodynamics perspective, this doesn't really make sense to me: it seems awfully difficult, to not say outright impossible, to have a stall speed that is significantly higher than the landing speed. Intuitively, the two should be just about the same, or the landing speed should be higher than the stall speed.


Did the F-8 actually have a stall speed of around 1.6 times its landing speed as suggested?
Is that even possible?
What were the stall and landing speeds of the F-8?
The stall speed your source is referring to may be the speed for a clean stall which means with the flaps are in flight position (= 0°).

Flaps on powered planes usually increase lift as well as drag. This means basically that you can fly slower and stall happens at a lower speed.

Here are the speeds from the F-8D flight manual (big pdf):



From the chart, in landing configuration with 19,000 lbs gross weight, the stall speed is ~113 knots.




  does ground effect come in to play for landing scenarios? – Owen


Ground effect reduces the touch down speed by reducing the stall speed below the value mentioned in the manuals. 

The strength of the ground effect depends on the construction of the plane. Low wing planes have stronger ground effect then high wing planes.
This means that the difference of landing speed and touch down speed is grater for a Low wing plane. On the other  hand the ground effect increases the flare phase of the landing for a   Low wing plane.