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In Gaelic folklore, a banshee is a female spirit whose wailing outside a house foretells the death of one of its inhabitants.
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In Scottish folklore, a banshee is a fairy who forewarns of death by wailing.
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The McDonnell F2H Banshee was an American single-seater carrier-borne all-weather fighter aircraft developed as a successor to the McDonnell FH Phantom and first flown in 1947. The McDonnell F2H Banshee was in service with the US Navy from 1949 to the early 1960's. The McDonnell F2H-4 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by two Westinghouse J34-WE-38 turbojets providing a top speed of 856 kmh and a range of 2370 km. Armaments consisted of four 20 mm cannons in the sides of the fuselage in later models, and up to 1000 lbs of bombs.
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