Looking at Hoover’s career -he flew combat sorties with them – demonstrated them and did the first flight of the XFJ-2 . I feel like taking his word on what is the best of the breed .

The whole piont was what exactly did Mr. Hoover say and in what context??? Also, comparing the XFJ-2 is hardly valid to this discussion. As the FJ-4B was a totally different machine! That would be like comparing a Allison powered P-51A with a Merlin/RR powered P-51D maybe even H!:cool: