The F2H Banshee served bravely during the early Cold War, but in a sky filled with faster, deadlier MiGs, it quickly earned a harsh nickname—MiG bait. Discover the story of a jet caught between ...

The development of the F2H Banshee began with the introduction of the McDonnell FH Phantom, which was first flown in 1945 as the McDonnell FD-1 and became the first pure-jet aircraft to enter ...

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 ...