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 ...

The McDonnell FH Phantom was the first purely jet-powered aircraft to ever land on a U ... The updated replacement would be known as the F2H Banshee. Derived directly from the Phantom, the ...

Could the McDonnell F2H Banshee emit a piercing shriek? (Yes.) Was the de Havilland Dormouse agile and adapted to climbing like the rodent? (It had a maximum speed of 128 mph, pretty good for 1923.) ...

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.

Lt. William Thomas Barry Troy of the Royal Canadian Navy was flying a McDonnell F2H Banshee just off the coast when it went down in a dense fog. The discovery of a wheel, ...

McDonnell’s next airplane was the twin-jet FH-1 Phantom, followed by the F2H Banshee, F3H Demon, F-101 Voodoo, and F-4 Phantom II.

Half a century to the day Bob Ferguson guided his Korean War-era fighter plane on its final flight, he was back in its cockpit.