The Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger is a supersonic, single-seat carrier-based fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Grumman. For a time, it held the world altitude record of 76,939 feet (23,451 m), as well as being the first supersonic fighter to be produced by Grumman. [2]

2024年9月22日 · The F-11F Tiger, made by Grumman, was the U.S. Navy’s first supersonic jet fighter put into service. It was meant to be faster than the F9F 6/7 Cougar, capable of going past Mach 1 and...

2021年10月4日 · On Sept. 21, 1956, young U.S. Navy test pilot Tom Attridge took off in an F11F Tiger (BuNo 138620) from Long Island, New York, for a weapons test over the Atlantic. He climbed to 20,000 feet, started a Mach 1 dive, and fired two bursts of rounds from his 20mm cannons until the ammunition was expended at 13,000 feet.

2021年5月26日 · Grumman’s 1954 proposal for an improved version of their subsonic F9 Cougar naval fighter evolved into an entirely new aircraft. Capable of modestly supersonic speeds, the F11 Tiger’s swept wings featured wing spoilers for roll control and full span flaps for good handling when launching from and recovering aboard ship.

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As an improvement to the F11F-1 (F-11A) fighter, Grumman proposed a more advanced version of the airframe known as the F11F-1F Super Tiger. This was the result of a 1955 study to fit the new General Electric J79 engine into the F11F airframe. The Navy was sufficiently interested to authorize modification of two production F11F-1s with enlarged air intakes and YJ79-GE-3 turbojets, with the ...

F-11 Tiger, a 1954 U.S. Navy jet fighter originally designated F11F; F11C Goshawk, a 1932 U.S. Navy biplane fighter; Hughes XF-11, a 1946 U.S. Army Air Forces reconnaissance aircraft prototype

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