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Subject: McDonnell F2H Banshee - swept wing sales success?
DropBear    10/15/2009 4:26:54 AM
Interested to know what the folk think of how a hypothetical swept-wing Banshee (with engine improvements) would have gone on the open market?

A smidge under 900 were produced and other than limited service with the RCN and wider use with the USN, it didn't appear to have the same success of the F9 Cougar.

- What could have been done to make it as competitive and what possible customers of the day could you have seen it marketed to?

Curious.
 
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sentinel28a       10/16/2009 3:41:14 PM
I think it was a case that there really isn't anything a swept-wing Banshee could do that the F9F-8 Cougar couldn't do as well or better.  I'm also not sure if it wouldn't have been a case of inventing a practically new aircraft.
 
The RCN would've been a customer, but possibly also Argentina (who flew the Panther/Cougar) and the Netherlands, who still had the Karel Doorman in service at the time.
 
I wonder how the SuperTiger would've done, personally. 
 
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