Keywords: FJ-1 FJ-2 NAN4-52.jpg Two Furies A straight-winged North American FJ-1 flying next to a swept-wing FJ-2 in 1952 The FJ-1 design dated back to the Second World War and only 33 were produced in 1948 The FJ-1 led North American Aviation to the design of the F-86 Sabre ordered by the U S Air Force In 1951 the U S Navy again ordered a navalized version of the F-86 naming it FJ-2 which first flew on 14 February 1952 It was essentially a F-86E with an arrester hook and folding wings Reaching squadrons in 1954 the 300 FJ-2s were only used by the U S Marine Corps from land bases and normally not from aircraft carriers 538 uprated FJ-3s followed still looking like F-86s but also widely used by the Navy North American then designed a special ground attack version the FJ-4 with first flew in 1954 This plane was quite different from the F-86 The FJs were redesignated F-1 under the unified designation system in 1962 FJ-3 becoming F-1C/D and FJ-4 F-1E U S Navy Naval Aviation News April 1952 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1950s/1952/apr52 pdf beginning 1952 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy North American FJ-1 Fury North American FJ-2 Fury |