On January 11, 1947, the prototype for the McDonnell F2H Banshee made its first flight. A larger development of the FH Phantom, the Banshee would go on to see service during the Korean War as an ...

Other orders (800 planes) followed for its second plane, the F2H Banshee. What almost proved McDonnell’s undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon.