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Description
| Manufacturer: | Grumman |
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| Base model: | F9F | ||
| Designation: | F9F | ||
| Version: | -8 | ||
| Nickname: | Cougar | ||
| Equivalent to: | F-9J F9JF-9J | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | ||
| Designation Period: | 1922-1962 | ||
| Basic role: | Fighter | ||
| Crew: | Pilot | ||
| First Flew: | 1947/11/21 | ||
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Specifications
| Length: | 42' 2" | 12.8 m | |
| Height: | 12' 3" | 3.7 m | |
| Wingspan: | 34' 6" | 10.5 m | |
| Wingarea: | 337.0 sq ft | 31.3 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 11,866 lb | 5,381 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 20,098 lb | 9,114 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 24,763 lb | 11,230 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney J48-P-8A | ||
| Thrust (each): | 7,250 lb | 3,287 kg | |
Performance
| Range: | 1,208 miles | 1,945 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 516 mph | 830 km/h | 448 kt |
| Max Speed: | 647 mph | 1,041 km/h | 562 kt |
| Climb: | 5,750 ft/min | 1,752 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 42,000 ft | 12,801 m | |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Don West , FL |
****** FOR ED & RUSS ****** I was stationed at NAF Port Isabel, TX 1956-59. We used to host your junior bird men from K'ville and Corpus during their week of air to air gunnery traiing. They'd fly out over the Gulf and shoot at a banner usually towed by some hard ass LCdr who loved to chew them out if their angle was wrong and the rips in the banner where too long. All in all it was a good tour. I was a 23 year old, single, AD2 drawing flight pay (helo crew) and had plenty of money to spread around among the fair ladies of South Texas and North-eastern Mexico Did Twenty-two and retired as CPO...LIFE WAS GOOD! I'm 73 now, in pretty good health, married with two kids and three grand kids..LIFE IS STILL GOOD! 09/26/2008 @ 21:25 [ref: 22752] |
| Adam A. Novak AMH2 Saint Peters,, MO | I was with VT-7 on the southside of NAAS Kingsville until the squadron moved to Meridian, Miss. and I moved nothside to VT-21 for the remainder of my tour. I remember working the evening shift, mostly pulling tails or putting them back on the F9s'after the ADJs' worked on the engines. I was due to be released from active duty in Sept. of 61 but was involuntary extended for 6 months due to some crisis. I really enjoyed being in the Navy and the experiences led me to a successful career with Trans World Airlines and then with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Anchors Aweigh, Mates. 09/16/2008 @ 12:33 [ref: 22691] |
| James Dye Howell, NJ | I grew up in Wall, NJ and when I was a kid I used to play in a park that everybody called "the airplane park" because the main attraction was a 1950s era jet fighter that was stripped down to the fuselage and we used to climb on it and in it. This was in the seventies before people would sue over a scraped knee. In 1986 a crew from the USS Intrepid museum came and took the plane to the museum. Thats when I found out it is a Grumman F9F Cougar. In 1995 I visited the museum and I inquired about the plane. Turns out it was on the flight deck in pieces. The fuselage was on its landing gear and the rest was in a huge cart sitting next to it. The staff told me the plane was going to be sent somewhere to be restored but to this day I cannot track it down. Does anybody know what may have happened to it? 07/13/2008 @ 09:33 [ref: 21885] |
| Norman Richard Higgs North Ogden, UT | To any of you Cougar pilots and crews out there: I am trying to find, talk with and/or obtain any information from anyone who knew my father, James Richard Higgs, LTjg. He was finishing his pilot training (F9F-8).
He was killed on March 27, 1959 at the Naval Training Center at Kingsville, TX. He was due to graduate and receive his wings that very day. The info. surrounding his death, was due to an inverter going out during take-off. Please get in touch with me if you have any personal information, squadron information, etc.. Thanks Norm Higgs norm.higgs@yahoo.com 01/29/2008 @ 10:01 [ref: 19459] |
| Ronald Jeter Lone Oak, TX | Does any one know any thing about Tommy Lyon who went missing from kingsville naval air station about 1961
Along with his F9F He is my cousin i would like to hear from any one who was their, or knows any one who knows any thing about this 01/23/2008 @ 08:08 [ref: 19404] |
| Henry Jayroe Houston, TX | I remember Ed. Mattocks,didn't you marry that teacher from Ganado, and Russ, How about Ed Jones and that cool '57 olds, how about Webster A. Cognevich from Buras ,La. driving that '55 Pontiac and that stinking Corvair, remember
Frank G. Pottratz from Walla Walla and that new Harley, he hit a cow going home after getting discharged, lifetime brain damage, thats what Jones told me when I went to visit him and his lady up in Guernsey ,Wy. How about Fred Sporman, Fred gave me one of the keys to life, Ralph T. Darling, yep, good man, How about Johnny Williams , 2nd shift tool room and Caroline. How about D.B.Harrison, How about Ozzie Blumburg and his son who came in before '62, How about Goldstein riding that stinking bicycle or drawing some JP4 for the heater in Ground support, San Francisco Bound.Spent my time in Ground Support and the Tin Shop,ran a check crew with Donald Emory and Woods,remember E.R.Sides. Old Memories W.T. Rowe, Neunan, Georgia? is that right? Pat Parker from Hearne, Tx. hanging out at the ham shack,K5KHH, how about the Beeville flyover, I have some photos of our empty flightline and all F9's launghing 4 abreast for that show,anyone want to call? email for the # jayroe2@flash.net 11/05/2007 @ 20:05 [ref: 18416] |
| John Furlow Salt Springs, FL | I was stationed at NAAS kingsville from June 1967 through May 1969. I worked the tower at NQI then later transferred to nalf Orange Grove. We hadmany exiting times with the TF9J's Some very scary. Saw several crash due to both mechanical as well as stude/pilot error. I would like to hear from anyone else wwho was at Kingsville/orange Grove.
I later was transferred to the USS Forestal CVA 59 11/03/2007 @ 01:10 [ref: 18386] |
| russ chea , CA | For >>>>>>>Ed Mattocks<<<<<<<
I'm laughing about the trips to mexico..... you must have been to Matamoros and "boys town". We paid kids .50 cents to guard our car tires and hubcaps while we partied in the bars or cribs (and of course the red haired bar dancer Yolanda). There was one time the "Federalies" came into a bar where I was, with machines guns leveled and they did a pat down of all us sailors, i don't know what they were looking for, guns or knives I suppose....at least they didn't take our wallets. You and I were in the same squadron at some times and must have shared the non-rated and P.O. barracks. I remember the name Darling, was he a PO3 Mech.? and Marine Captain Gallager, I think he might have been one of our Div. (Ordnance) Officers at one time. I spent all or most of my time at the Ord. shack, but was on the flight line frequently disarming ejection seats, loading Sidewinders and rockets, driving the generators for starting up the jets, and occasionally working on the gun sights, which were my speciality. The pics I put on here must have looked familiar. I worked with an Ord PO2 Brady, and Chief Boggs among others. 09/28/2007 @ 12:14 [ref: 18043] |
| Ed Mattocks Callahan, FL | I was stationed in ATU-202, then VT-21 from Sept '58 through June '62. I started out on the flight line as a PC then got in the "Bowser" crew known as the "Vagabonds". We worked and played very hard those days. Then I towed A/C on the night shift working for PO1 Gordon "Gordo". Later, when I made 2nd Class, they put me in the Power Plants shop working for a bunch of very senior petty officers. I was their "mule". I remember Chief Flannagan and Marine Captain Sillard as well as AB1 Hartsfield, Wilbur Goines, Wesley Ball, Darling, Roof, "Nose" Senesi, Owens, Braistead, Marine Captain Gallager and many more whose names wont come any more. I drove a '51 tan Ford and made several trips to Mexico charging $4/person for a round trip. We would leave at 1630 and get back to the barracks at 0700 in time for a shower and make muster. There were very few non-rated med that owned cars then so I was constantly being asked to take a load south of the border. From there I went to VA-56 in Lemoore and then to Great Lakes pushing boots. After that ordeal I went to VP-10 in Brunswick, Me and then to Memphis where I was course supervisor of ADJ "B" school. Then I retired out of VP-16 in Jax in '77. 09/27/2007 @ 16:24 [ref: 18036] |
| Ronald Jeter Lone Oak, TX | I would like to talk to any one stationed at Kingsville NAS late 1960 or early 1961 please call or E mail me at 903-662-5372
Very important to me ronald.jeter@wildblue.net 08/31/2007 @ 17:18 [ref: 17804] |
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