Grumman (now known as Northrup Grumman) had already established an enviable reputation with the U.S. Navy fighter pilot community via its pistol-engined propeller-driven fighter planes during WWII, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An outgunned US Navy pilot downed four Soviet MiG-15 jets in a legendary dogfight over 70 years ago. Royce Williams was flying an ...

The first air-to-air combat between fighter jets took place on Nov. 8, 1950 when, during an attack on the Sinuiju bridges near the mouth of the Yalu River, a U.S. Air Force F-80C belonging to the 16th ...

Key Points and Summary - Grumman’s F9F-8 Cougar was the U.S. Navy’s swept-wing evolution of the Panther—a timely answer to Soviet and MiG-driven realities of the early Cold War. -With more fuel, ...

In 1951, ace pilot George Duncan was testing the Navy’s new F9F Panther off the Virginia coast when a routine carrier landing turned into one of the most shocking crash moments ever filmed at sea.

The sight of a jet being towed by a tractor down Scottsville Road stopped traffic coming from the other direction and attracted several curious onlookers just after midnight this morning. The ...

After serving in the Korean War, the USS Boxer went on a tour of the Pacific in 1955, carrying a pair of F9F-5 Panthers, Grumman Aircraft’s first jet fighter for the U.S. Navy. Panthers flew most of ...

A U.S. Navy F9F Panther assigned to Carrier Air Group 2 cruises past Mount Fuji on a port call in Japan during the Korean War. National Archives and Records Administration The Grumman F9F Panther was ...