North American FJ-2/-3 Fury

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FJ-2 / FJ-3 Fury
An FJ-3M of VF-121 Pacemakers in 1957
Role	Fighter aircraft Type of aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	North American Aviation
First flight	27 December 1951
Introduction	1954
Retired	September 1962
Primary users	United States Navy United States Marine Corps
Number built	741
Developed from	North American F-86 Sabre
Developed into	North 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]