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. But the XP-67, casually called Bat and Moonbat—―it didn’t ...

the team at McDonnell began working on a replacement to the Phantom before the first aircraft was even finished. The updated replacement would be known as the F2H Banshee. Derived directly from ...

At the time, VC-3 was deploying teams in either Vought F4U-5N Corsairs or McDonnell F2H-3 Banshees ... what I decided to do—if a pass in a Banshee could be called a bounce.