– McDonnell F-2H4 Banshee

McDonnell F-2H4 Banshee. The McDonnell XF2D-1 Banshee was a substantially larger and more powerful version of the Phantom. Back in 1945, when the Navy was first letting contracts for carrier-based jet fighters, it noted that the McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom was substantially slower (only 487 mph at sea level) than contemporary USAAF jet fighters such as the P-80 Shooting Star. Consequently, at the same time that they were ordering jet fighter prototypes from other manufacturers, the Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) invited McDonnell to submit a design for a successor to the FD-1 even before the Phantom had entered production. On March 22, 1945, a Letter of Intent was issued which covered the development and manufacture of three XF2D-1s Serials were BuNos 99858 to 99860. These are the basic virtual models for FSDS, AutoCad and GMax. These models provide approximately 99% of the parts for creating a working virtual model for CFS2, CFS3, FS2000 and FS2002. Model creation by J-P Demmerle. 600 Kb