Yet the Phantom itself underperformed. The McDonnell FH Phantom was the first purely jet-powered aircraft to ever land on a U.S. aircraft carrier. Designed during the twilight of World War II ...

McDonnell’s next airplane was the twin-jet FH-1 Phantom, followed by the F2H Banshee, F3H Demon, F-101 Voodoo, and F-4 Phantom II. But the XP-67, casually called Bat and Moonbat—―it didn’t ...