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| Keywords: FJ-1 and XFJ-2B in flight c1952.jpg Two Furies A straight-winged North American FJ-1 flying next to the swept-wing XFJ-2B BuNo 133756 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 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 19752 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1996 253 7235 025 beginning 1952 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy North American FJ-1 Fury North American FJ-2 Fury | ||||
