After serving in the Korean War, the USS Boxer went on a tour of the Pacific in 1955, carrying a pair of F9F-5 Panthers, Grumman Aircraft’s first jet fighter for the U.S. Navy. Panthers flew ...

This F9F-8 Cougar is the first U.S. fighter jet to be painted hot pink. Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her ...

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 it at a Web site that aviation artist Jerry ...

The Jolly Rogers later traded in their Bearcats for the Navy’s first jet fighter, the F9F Panther. Before VF-61 was disestablished in March 1959, the squadron also flew the F9F Cougar (a swept ...