Aero-TV: Profiles in Aviation - The FJ-3 Fury
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Evergreen Aviation and Space Museums Larry Wood Profiles the FJ-3 Fury
Developed as a series of swept-wing, carrier-capable fighters, the North American FJ Fury series began as the United States Navy and Marine Corps equivalent to the USAFs F-86 Sabre. The FJ-1, however, more closely resembles the F-86 Sabre (having a straight-wing design) than its successors; fundamentally different aircraft, the FJ-2 and the FJ-3 feature folding wings and longer nose landing struts to both increase the angle of attack upon launch and to absorb the shock of hard landings on a carrier deck.
On September 12th, 1946, pilot Wallace A. Lien took the North American FJ-1 Fury on its first test flight; after poor performance reviews, however, the Navy quickly determined that they needed an entirely new design for successful operations, ordering only 31 FJ-1 Furys into production. In 1951, the Navy requested three prototypes of a swept-wing fighter design, designated as the FJ-2 Fury. The FJ-2 Fury, powered by a single General Electric J47-GE-2 engine, first took flight on December 27th, 1951; this design too, however, proved unsuccessful at meeting operational needs. With only 6,000 pounds of thrust and a heavier empty weight than the F-86 (an increase to 11,800 pounds over the Sabres 11,125 pounds), the FJ-2 Fury was underpowered for carrier operations.
Even before the development on the FJ-2 Fury finished, engineers began work on an upgraded version powered by the Wright J65-W-4 engine. Delivering about 28% more thrust than the previously used G.E. J47, the J65 engine provided 7,800 pounds of thrust with little additional weight. In March of 1952, the Navy ordered 389 of these aircraft, named the FJ-3 Fury.
Featuring a deeper fuselage than its predecessor, the FJ-3 Fury first flew in July of 1953. Deliveries began in 1954, with a total of 538 FJ-3 Furys delivered by the end of 1956. In 1955, several modifications were introduced to the fleet including the addition of two new under wing store pylons, color scheme change, and the replacement of wing slats by extended wing leading edges. The wing leading edges added another 124 gallons to the fuel capacity and increased the wing area from 287.9 square feet to 302.3 square feet. The last of the modified FJ-3 Furys, designated as FJ-3Ms, rolled out of the factory in August of 1956.
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He kept saying it went supersonic...but NEVER in level flight, only in dives, where it was indeed supersonic. No first generation jet fighter in the world could go supersonic in level flight...that was the second gen fighters, beginning with the MiG-19 and F-100.
Contrary to his statement the FJ-3 was not a useless cast off sent down to the Marines. It was a front line fighter in the navy in many squadrons and served quite well. It was adapted to be capable of air to air refueling, and the FJ-3M was among the first to be fitted with the AIM-9 Sidewinder heat seeking missile. It was a very good day-VFR fighter. Don't sell it short.
Marines are always claiming they get hand me downs. Assholes
He didn't say it was useless, he said it was a very good aeroplane.
Pelican1984
The FJ-3 and the F 86 are different airplanes?
Thanks.
He did say throttle response was poor so carrier landing was overly dangerous. The F4U Corsair carrier landing attributes were also poor but legend has it that the RN come up with pilot instructions that allowed better results.
For the F3 and the F-86, the military were seeking all weather day/night capability so when radar equipped planes were introduced, a day fighter or attack aircraft was going to the boneyard as soon as new inventory was built.
Beautiful planes, great video. Would love to visit this museum
If you're on the East Coast the Hickory North Carolina saber society has an FJ three it has been completely restored and is in wonderful condition little Museum that is at the Hickory Regional Airport Hickory North Carolina I remember playing in this plane where It was placed at Jaycee Park in Taylorsville North Carolina and the condition that plane was left in was pitiful they have done an incredible incredible job shout out to Kyle Kirby and the crew
Good Stuff!!!
F8 Crusaders have been know to fly with the wings folded
No the FJ-1 had no resemblance to the F-86 other than the intake design… The FJ-2 was nearly a duplicate of the F-86 with more robust gear and a wing fold mechanism that did not show when he wings were in the flight position. Also the nose gear strut was only extended on takeoff from a carrier. It stayed in its normal down position when coming back aboard and at any land base runway. Again you would be hard pressed to see the difference between an F-86 & an FJ-2…