[rocketraider]

Everything I've read about the F85 prototypes indicated they were actually decent handling little aircraft- except when it came time to dock them back to the carrier plane. Seems no one thought about turbulence with two high-speed aircraft trying to literally hook together to draw the small one back into the carrier's bay. They would push themselves apart.

And since the F85 Goblin had no landing gear of its own, it had to belly land if it couldn't hook to its carrier.

The advent of long-range fighter and escort jets made them obsolete before all the reconnection bugs could be worked out.