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The F-86 Sabre is rightly celebrated as one of the finest products of the US aviation industry. The story of the gamble that gave it swept wings is legendary.
But North American produced another aircraft before the Sabre. In fact, without it, the US Army Air Force would not have been convinced to commission the XP-86 in the first place. That aircraft was the Navy'y FJ-1 Fury.
Where the Sabre is a legend, its older cousin's existence has been brushed under the carpet for seventy years. This is its brief and ignominious story.