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On July 21, 1946, Lt. Comdr. James Davidson, flying a McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom jet, made successful landings and takeoffs on the carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, this being the first occasion that a U.S. pure-jet aircraft operated on an aircraft carrier
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