North American FJ-4 Fury

what is it?

The North American FJ-4 Fury is a swept-wing carrier-capable fighter-bomber for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The final development in a lineage that included the Air Force's F-86 Sabre, the FJ-4 shared its general layout and engine with the earlier FJ-3, but featured an entirely new wing design and was a vastly different design in its final embodiment.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · 11.9 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 1,094 km/htop speed
• range 3,250 kmwithout refuelling
• size 10.8 tmax take-off weight
• built 374made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 72 years ago, in 1954.
• 🏎️Top speed is 8.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11.9 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 3,250 km: 18× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.6× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1954

retired

1964

status

retired

number built

374

role

fighter aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

North American Aviation

engines

1× Wright J65-W-16A

crew

1

length

11.1 m

wingspan

11.9 m

height

4.2 m

max take-off weight

10.8 t

top speed

1,094 km/h

range

3,250 km

ceiling

14,300 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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