Has to be ignorance on the part of the Editors, or the script writers. There is NO resemblence between the two aircraft, and it's been what almost 70 years...it can't be hard to get the designations correct. It's called the HISTORY channel for cryin' loud...and they always want to compare aircraft abilites and why one pilot could do this and that...c'mon..I could do better.
Next they'll be calling an RF-8 a Corsair II.
