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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.
The Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar is a carrier-based jet-powered fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Grumman.. It was developed during the early 1950s on behalf of the United States Navy (US Navy) and United States Marine Corps (USMC), which were keen to quickly introduce a naval fighter equipped with a swept wing.
Born in Tacoma, Washington, he was credited with destroying 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 enemy aircraft and was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II. He is best known for surviving the spectacular crash in 1951 of his Grumman F9F Panther (which was captured on film) while attempting to land on the USS Midway (CV-41).
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F9F-2 Panther of Fighter Squadron 112 (VF-112) "Fighting One Twelve" in flight. VF-112 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11) for four deployments to Korea aboard the aircraft carriers USS Valley Forge (CV-45) and USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in 1950-1952.
VF-192 F4U-4s were tasked with flak and small arms suppression.After deployment, the squadron moved to NAS Moffett Field and began to transition to the jet-powered F9F-2 Panther, receiving several of these aircraft in July 1951. However, all of these aircraft were transferred to VF-191 in October 1951, and VF-192 continued to fly the F4U-4.
After the crash, McCombs, who died at age 90 in Ohio on July 7, 2022, went on to have a distinguished career as a Marine Corps aviator. He flew the F9F Panther jet fighter and the HRS helicopter ...
It lost 4 F9F-5s and 2 pilots killed. [2]: 142 On 13 April 1953, the engine of an F9F Panther from the squadron flamed out during a photo reconnaissance mission and the pilot Lt(jg) Roy Tailor was killed when he attempted to ditch the plane at sea. On 20 April 1953, pilot Randolph T. Scoggan was killed when his F9F Panther was shot down by ...
The Grumman F9F Panther was the manufacturer's first jet fighter and the U.S. Navy's second. The Panther was the most widely used U.S. Navy jet fighter of the Korean War. It flew 78,000 sorties and was responsible for the first air kill by the US Navy in the war—the downing of a North Korean Yakovlev Yak-9 fight