Jet Meets Carrier

摘要

Speaking forthe many pilots who traded in their piston engine fighters for jets during the Korean War, Captain Gerald G. O'Rourke wrote, "The sensations were truly weird." In Night Fighters over Korea, his memoir of flying the Douglas F3D Skyknight, O'Rourke describes his first jet flight, in a McDonnell F2H-4 Banshee: "I felt naked and unprotected sitting way up front, without a prop and a huge engine blocking my view.... There was very little noise, save the crackling of the radio and gushing of the plane's ventilation and pressurization system. The plane wouldn't strain at a turn the way a prop did, and slow speed flight was entirely different."