During carrier trials of the F9F Panther, George Duncan’s aircraft was suddenly pulled downward by an air pocket as he ...

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 ...

Lieutenant Royce Williams limped back toward USS Oriskany in a battered F9F Panther, fighting gusts that slammed against the ...

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 ...

Royce Williams was flying an inferior F9F Panther. Military aviation experts say Williams' success that day was a result of his training and readiness. More than 70 years ago, a US Navy pilot took on ...

F9F Panther, a former U.S. Air Force officer gives us a detailed history: Seventy-plus-years after the fact, the question of who (as in the pilot) and what (as in the plane)... Here’s What You Need to ...

John Magda mounting his Blue Angel Panther in 1950. Courtesy Marni Magda Half a century of Winona, Minnesota winters had made a weary sight of the Grumman F9F Panther. When Dan Cherry saw a photo of ...

Capt. Royce Williams in front of a Panther jet. Courtesy San Diego GI Film Festival An amendment to grant the Congressional Medal of Honor to an Escondido resident and former U.S. Naval aviator who ...

WESTERLY, R.I. — A fighter jet like those flown by baseball great Ted Williams in the Korean War will visit Misquamicut Beach on Wednesday, and people who can pay $10 and climb a 20-foot ladder can ...