FJ Fury in Detail & Scale #68

At the beginning of 1945, the US Navy awarded North American Aviation a contract for a single-engine jet fighter. This resulted in the FJ-1 Fury, a straight-winged design that first flew in late 1946. Only 30 FJ-1s were built in 1948, but they equipped the first operational jet fighter squadron at sea. The FJ-1 was the basis of the US Air Force's initial F-86 Sabre design; the later swept-wing Sabre, in turn, was the basis for improved Fury variants. The FJ-2 - essentially a navalized F-86E Sabre - entered US Marine service in 1954. Technical and structural improvements were made in the FJ-3 of 1954 and the FJ-4 fighter-bomber of 1955. The later variant saw extensive Navy and Marine service into the early 1960s. Military aircraft expert Bert Kinzey takes a detailed look at all Fury variants in US Navy and Marine Corps service. Paperback - 8-1/2' x 11' - 80 pp - 16 pages of color, 10 color profiles, 200 b/w