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Blutonski816
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I know the Ford, (think Blutonski's avatar) was a few years too late for Korea....but Heinemann always said that he thought that the F4D would have been his crown jewel had it gotten the chance to sew its oats in combat......sorry A4s. Actually I read a story recently...maybe in Air and Space mag last year, about a couple of F-8s that tried to jump the North Island NORAD F4D squadron, and they got waxed by those guys.
Its funny because I remember reading the first chapter of "Scream of Eagles" where it details a 1V1 between a F4D and an ANG F-86 where the Sabre smoked the Ford.
But still, that big ole Bat-wing, a fat little J57 motor that was good enough to power the F-8 that superceded it years later.
I wanted to include the F4D in this poll, but I thought that if I did, by that token I'd have to add every A/C procured by the Navy & Marine Corps between 1950 and 1960

Not to say there arent a lot of sweet planes from that era... but maybe that'll be for another dream sheet poll (Dreamsheet: Post-Korea/Pre-Vietnam??)