Instead, Amen made aviation history by scoring the first air-to-air victory in an all jets dogfight when he downed Grachev’s MiG-15. The Korean war, that raged for three years from Jun. 25, 1950 to ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Though clearly outclassed by the MiG-15, the Panther was more maneuverable at certain altitudes and possessed a superior armament of four twenty-millimeter M3 Hispano ...

Soon after the Second World War ended, America was quick to jump on the fighter jet train. True, work on machines that could take to the sky by means others than propellers began even as the world’s ...

From its shaky beginnings as an underpowered prototype to scoring kills against MiG-15s and flying one of the longest dogfights in history, the F9F Panther became Grumman’s rugged jet workhorse of the ...

Grumman’s F9F Panther was a straight-wing naval jet that entered combat just as air warfare changed forever. From brutal ground attack missions to an extraordinary MiG-15 dogfight kept secret for ...

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 ...