Comments on: Have You Ever Seen A Willys Jeep Start A Jet? https://offroadaction.ca/2022/12/08/have-you-ever-seen-a-willys-jeep-start-a-jet/ World's Largest Vintage Off Road Site! Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tracy White https://offroadaction.ca/2022/12/08/have-you-ever-seen-a-willys-jeep-start-a-jet/comment-page-1/#comment-60963 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:54:35 +0000 https://offroadaction.ca/?p=20211#comment-60963 In reply to Paul Mathless.

The first plane is a F7U-1 Cutlass during testing at NAS Patuxent River.

]]> By: Paul Mathless https://offroadaction.ca/2022/12/08/have-you-ever-seen-a-willys-jeep-start-a-jet/comment-page-1/#comment-60354 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:21:41 +0000 https://offroadaction.ca/?p=20211#comment-60354 The first and fourth photos are interesting. In the first one, the aircraft being started, No. 415, doesn’t quite fit the category of “early jet,” as it seems to have a swept wing. To my knowledge, the first U.S. plane that had a swept wing was the F-86 Sabre Jet fighter first flew in late 1947 and gained fame over Korean skies in the early ’50s.
The fourth photo, while showing two of the jump starters on the deck of an aircraft carrier, also includes a plane taking off that is most definitely not a jet. It’s an F4U Corsair, which was a formidable Navy and Marine fighter in the Pacific theater of WWII. Its most notable features were inverted gull-wings and an immense propeller, which is faintly visible in the photo.

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