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 ...

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.) ...

Pontiac called it Banshee, a blatant reference to the McDonnell F2H Banshee single-seat, carrier-based jet-fighter aircraft campaigned by the U.S. Navy from 1948-1961.

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 successors, the F2H Banshee, the F3H Demon, the F-101 Voodoo, and the F-4 Phantom II, continued the sound design concept and high performance qualities of the FH-1. The National Air and ...

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.

The all-new engine, internally named “Banshee” after the old McDonnell F2H Banshee jet fighters, will reportedly put out around 520 horsepower and 525 pound-feet of torque.

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 ...

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.

This engine originally powered early cold war American fighter aircraft, like the Vought V3D Skynight and the McDonnell F2H Banshee. The engine generates 3,600 pounds of thrust or about 7,000 ...

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.