True… most of his site is written from published works, and little is his own research.

At the bottom of each page is a list of the sources of data used for that page… I’m mentioned as the last entry on the A-7E:

Sources:

1. American Combat Planes, 3rd Edition, Ray Wagner, Doubleday, 1982.

2. United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911, GordonSwanborough and Peter M. Bowers, Naval Institute Press, 1990.

3. Corsair–Sterling Ending To a Glorious Naval Career, Stephane Nocolaou, Air Fan International, Vol 1, No. 6, September 1996.

4. E-mail from Robert Manley on production blocks for A-7s

5. E-mail from Jonathan Alexander on FLIR installation on A-7E.

I was a USMC FLIR tech on A-6Es, and in 1984 I worked with the USN A-7E FLIR techs at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan… which is how I knew he had gotten bum data from one of his sources. I was able to find a reference on-line to back me up, and sent it to him.