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The Grumman F9F Panther is an early carrier-based jet fighter designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Grumman. It was the first jet-powered fighter aircraft to see air-to-air combat with the United States Navy as well as being Grumman’s first jet fighter.
1 de ene. de 2020 · In fact, several notable pilots of the F9F include future NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. The F9F was also the only jet fighter to ever score successive kills against the MiG-15 and Yak-9. They proved to be a very reliable, rugged, and capable jet fighter for forward air control and close air support.
It was the very first kill by a Navy jet, the Grumman Panther. The Grumman XF9F-1 Panther began life in 1946 as design G-79, the company's first serious attempt to build a jet powered aircraft. It was a rather cluttered looking craft with 4 Westinghouse J-30 jet engines poking through the wings.
- 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m)
- 250 sq ft (23.23 sq m)
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- 38 ft 0 in (11.58 m)
Panthers would fly nearly half of the air-to-ground missions conducted by the Navy and Marine Corps in Korea. Its most famous pilot was Boston Red Sox slugger and future Hall of Famer, Ted Williams. The museum's Panther is an F9F-5P, a photorecon version.
Though it scored the first air-to-air shoot down of a jet aircraft in Naval Aviation history, most of the 78,524 combat flights logged by F9F pilots were in support of the interdiction campaign against the North Koreans.
F9F-2 Panther. Grumman's first jet fighter, the F9F Panther was introduced in November 1947, but it wasn't until May 1949 that the first production models were delivered to the Navy's Fighter Squadron (VF) 51. The Panther saw its first combat on 3 July 1950, flying strikes from USS Valley Forge (CV-45). During the Korean War, the F9F was used ...
Later still Panthers became both remotely-piloted drone aircraft to be expended as targets as well as drone controllers. Panthers equipped with cameras (F9F-2Ps and F9F-5Ps) took pre- and post-strike photographs of targets for analysis back aboard. But by 1962 Panthers were retired from active Navy and Marine Corps service.
