Early F3H-2N Demon with Long Test Probe

F3H-1N Demon First Flight, St. Louis, MO

F3H-2N Demon in Clouds

F3H-2N Demon with Sparrow Missiles in Flight

F3H-2N Demon Carrier Takeoff

F3H-2N Demon Takeoff from USS Forrestal

F3H Demon on Carrier

F3H-2N Demon in Flight Above the Missouri River, St. Charles, MO

F3H-2M Demon Flying Over Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

F-101A Voodoo Number Eight with F3H-2N Demon in Flight over Missouri

McDonnell F3H-2N Demon Flies over the Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

McDonnell Test Pilot Bob Little with F4H-1 Prototype

First F-101A Number 1 Voodoo at Edwards Air Force Base

F2H-3 Banshee in Flight

McDonnell XF-85 Flight Test

McDonnell Douglas F-15 Streak Eagle over St. Louis, October 1974

McDonnell Model 120 Helicopter Prototype in Flight

F3H-3G/H Super Demon Mockup, Prototype for the F-4 Phantom

F2H-3 Banshee in Flight

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F3H-1N Demon in Test Flight

McDonnell F3H Demon (1951-1959): The F3H Demon was the first swept-wing jet fighter designed by McDonnell Aircraft and the only single-engine carrier based fighter built by the company. Design began in 1949, and the Demon made its first flight on August 7, 1951. However, development of the plane’s original engine was delayed and in 1953 the Demon was redesigned around a more powerful engine. The new engine greatly improved the plane’s performance and in 1956 the Demon was fully qualified as a first line fighter for the U.S. Navy. The F3H-2M Demon, first flown in 1955, was the first aircraft designed to be armed only with missiles rather than guns. In 1958, flying day and night, the Demon provided all-weather fleet defense during critical operations over Lebanon in the Mediterranean, and off Quemoy Island near China in the Far East. McDonnell Aircraft delivered the last of 522 F3H Demons in 1959.

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Unique identifier BI21050

Boeing ID d4e-39239

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