Identity?

After seeing Aaron's pics, I would like to know this F-84's pilot's name..... ??????? Piped, and nice looking, nice flying ship. I did meet him, but never got the name.

I could be wrong but that looks like a Marvin Babcock design.

Yes, that's Marvin's F-86. It's his design and runs--I believe--a
piped GMA-Jett .61. Marvin and the plane are regulars at Ned Brown
Flying Site in Rolling Meadows, IL.

Thanks, Richard!

I asked Marvin as to the design, and he said it is a F-84.
Either way, it is a good looking ship on the ground and in the air!
Bill

Here's a couple of pics of Marvin's plane from the Peoria contest.

Fred

NIce ship. Looks a lot more like an F4J Fury (Navy F-86) than an F-84 tho..

First Fury's were straight winged, FJ1, then became swept as FJ4. Never were really like the F86, which just looked better. My ship was the last to carry the FJ's into active service to WESTPAC in 61/62. We also carried F8U, A3, F3H, A4 aircraft and a gaggle of F4Ds.

>First Fury's were straight winged, FJ1, then became swept as
>FJ4. Never were really like the F86, which just looked
>better. My ship was the last to carry the FJ's into active
>service to WESTPAC in 61/62. We also carried F8U, A3, F3H,
>A4 aircraft and a gaggle of F4Ds.

FJ-2s and the -3s were VERY similar to late F-86 models. In fact the Navy went ahead with the contract in order to get swept-wing fighters onto the carriers in the wake of Korea, ASAP. The -4 was almost a completely different airplane. First FJ-2s (almost identical to the F-86E except for the folding wings and four 20mm cannon armament) went to the Marines of VMF-122 in January, 1954. First carrier deployment of the FJ-3 was aboard USS Forrestal in 1956. The last -4s were withdrawn to the reserves early in the '60s.