F3H-2 Demon

John
Excellent work on an early USN jet aircraft. Looks like you have another McDonnell bird on the assembly line.

Clifford Keesler
Very nice.

Slavo Hazucha
Cool looking Demon, very nice & realistic light wear! 👍 Didn't know these used Sparrows too...

James C
Very nice work 👍

Will Dossel 作者
Academy 1/48 F-4B in work - companion in VF-41 (1965) colors.

John
Its interesting that McDonnell named their fighter jets after supernatural entities...Phantom, Banshee, Goblin, Demon, Voodoo, and Phantom II.

James C
@ John - That's really interesting, and I never made the connection until you posted about it👍

Nathan Dempsey
Nice Demon build there Will. The wing folds are very interesting on this aircraft.

Will Dossel 作者
Why did McDonnell name their aircraft after spirits?
" McDonnell named his new jet fighter "Phantom."
In an official interoffice correspondence a year later, McDonnell wrote: "So many airplanes have been named since 1903 that there are few fields from which such names have not been frequently drawn. One of these rare fields is the world of [animism] (the theory that life and mind are inherent in matter), and it is from this field that we will select our jet and rocket airplane names, subject to the approval by the customer."
From a list of 19 entities from the spirit world, including Phantom, Banshee and Goblin, McDonnell chose Phantom. The XFD-1, he wrote, with a speed of 500 mph (800 kilometers per hour), would 'appear and disappear like an apparition.' "
Source: boeing.com/news/fron..vember/i_history.pdf