North American FJ-2/-3 Fury

FJ-2 / FJ-3 Fury
An FJ-3M of VF-121 Pacemakers in 1957
General information
TypeFighter aircraft
National originUnited States
ManufacturerNorth American Aviation
Primary usersUnited States Navy
Number built741
History
Introduction date1954
First flight27 December 1951
RetiredSeptember 1962
Developed fromNorth American F-86 Sabre
Developed intoNorth American FJ-4 Fury

The North American FJ-2 and FJ-3 Fury are a series of swept-wing and carrier-capable fighters for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The FJ-2 resulted from an effort to navalize the North American F-86 Sabre operated by the United States Air Force. These aircraft feature folding wings, and a longer nose landing strut designed to increase angle of attack upon launch and to accommodate a longer oleo to absorb the shock of hard landings on an aircraft carrier deck.

Although sharing a U.S. Navy designation with its distant predecessor, the straight-winged North American FJ-1 Fury, the FJ-2/-3 were completely different aircraft (the later FJ-4 was again, a complete structural redesign of the FJ-3). The FJ-2 was one of the aircraft used to evaluate the first steam catapult on a US Navy aircraft-carrier.[1]

  1. ^ "FJ-2 Fury". NavalAviationMuseum. Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. 2014. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2015.