{"id":11490604,"date":"2026-08-12T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/grumman-f9f-panther-korean-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:09:55","slug":"grumman-f9f-panther-korean-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/grumman-f9f-panther-korean-war\/","title":{"rendered":"F9F Panther: Grumman&#8217;s Korean War Jet Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>On 3 July 1950, barely a week into the Korean War, Lieutenant JG Leonard Plog rolled his straight-winged jet onto the tail of a propeller-driven Yak-9 and squeezed the trigger. It was the first air-to-air kill ever scored by a US Navy jet, and it belonged to a stubby, tip-tanked fighter called the Panther.<\/p><p>Grumman had started the design in the last months of World War II, mating a single imported Rolls-Royce Nene engine to a rugged carrier airframe. The permanent tanks on the wingtips gave the Panther its unmistakable silhouette, and after its 1947 maiden flight it was cleared for carrier operations in September 1949.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;color:#5C91FF\">DATOS R\u00c1PIDOS<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Tipo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Single-seat, single-engine carrier jet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Primer vuelo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">21 November 1947<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Central el\u00e9ctrica<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">1 x Pratt & Whitney J48 turbojet (F9F-5)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Velocidad m\u00e1xima<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">579 mph (932 km\/h)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">N\u00famero construido<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">1,382<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Notable pilots<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">John Glenn, Ted Williams, Neil Armstrong<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Destino<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Frontline to 1956; Argentina to 1969<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Navy's Korean Workhorse<\/h2><p>Over Korea the Panther became the US Navy and Marine Corps' primary jet, flying some 78,000 sorties. It was outclassed in a straight fight by the swept-wing MiG-15, yet Panther pilots still claimed seven of them for the loss of two of their own, and spent most of the war hammering bridges, flak sites and supply lines as a tough, dependable attack aircraft.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_B09DEA2kU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>The cockpit roster reads like a hall of fame. Future astronaut John Glenn flew Panthers as a Marine, alongside baseball legend Ted Williams, who left the Boston Red Sox to serve. Fellow moonwalker-to-be Neil Armstrong flew them too, and ejected after his jet clipped a cable strung across a Korean valley.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1055857117  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:_JxY.cc42\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/grumman-f9f-panther-korean-war-1.jpg\" alt=\"F9F-2 Panthers launching from USS Leyte in 1951\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">F9F-2 Panthers of VF-31 launch from USS Leyte off Korea, 1951. Photo: U.S. Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One Panther Against Seven MiGs<\/h2><p>The most astonishing Panther story stayed secret for forty years. On 18 November 1952, Lieutenant Royce Williams found himself alone against a swarm of Soviet MiG-15s over the Sea of Japan. In a running half-hour battle he shot down four, nursed his shattered jet back to the carrier riddled with 263 hits, and was ordered never to speak of it to avoid igniting open war with Moscow.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;In the moment I was a fighter pilot doing my job. I was only shooting what I had.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Royce Williams<\/strong> &mdash; US Navy F9F-5 Panther pilot, on his secret 1952 dogfight<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The Panther also became the first jet of the Navy's Blue Angels, thrilling airshow crowds from 1949. Withdrawn from frontline service in 1956, a handful soldiered on with Argentina until 1969.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jv1686AeYeI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>It was never the fastest cat in the sky, but the Panther put the US Navy into the jet fight and carried some of the twentieth century's most famous aviators there in one piece.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=761734682  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:_JxY.cc42\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/grumman-f9f-panther-korean-war-2.jpg\" alt=\"F9F Panther ramp strike aboard USS Midway\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Carrier flying was unforgiving: an F9F ramp strike aboard USS Midway, 1951. Photo: U.S. Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;I was turning and one guy hit me with the 37mm cannon that knocked out my hydraulics.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Royce Williams<\/strong> &mdash; US Navy F9F-5 Panther pilot<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>A short history of Grumman\u2019s jet cat and the war that made it famous:<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zBM5NrTXHM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia; Task & Purpose; National Naval Aviation Museum; U.S. Navy.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/folland-gnat-tiny-sabre-slayer\/\">Folland Gnat: El peque\u00f1o asesino de sables<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/douglas-f4d-skyray-speed-climb-records\/\">La manta raya que bati\u00f3 el r\u00e9cord de velocidad<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 July 1950, barely a week into the Korean War, Lieutenant JG Leonard Plog rolled his straight-winged jet onto the tail of a propeller-driven Yak-9 and squeezed the trigger. 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