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The Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger is a supersonic, single-seat
carrier-based United States Navy fighter aircraft in operation during the 1950s
and 1960s. Originally designated the F11F Tiger in April 1955 under the
pre-1962 Navy designation system, it was redesignated as F-11 Tiger under the
1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system.
The F11F/F-11 was used by the Blue Angels flight team
from 19571969. Grumman Aircraft Corporation made 200 Tigers, with the last
aircraft being delivered to the U.S. Navy on 23 January 1959.
The F11F (F-11) Tiger origins can be traced back to a
privately funded 1952 Grumman concept to modernize the F9F-6/7 Cougar by
implementing the area rule and other advances. This Grumman company project was
known as the G-98, and when it was concluded it was a complete design departure
from the Cougar.
The design's potential for supersonic performance and
reduced transonic drag stirred interest in the U.S. Navy. By 1953, redesigns
led to a completely new aircraft bearing no more than a familial resemblance to
the Cougar. The new wing had full-span leading edge slats and trailing edge
flaps with roll control achieved using spoilers rather than traditional
ailerons. For storage on aircraft carriers, the F-11 Tiger's wings manually
folded downwards. Anticipating supersonic performance, the tailplane was all-moving.
The aircraft was designed for the Wright J65 turbojet, a license-built version
of the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.
The U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics was sufficiently
impressed to order two prototypes, designated XF9F-8 even though the new
fighter was clearly a new design. To add to the confusion, the prototypes were
then redesignated XF9F-9 with the XF9F-8 designation going to another more
straightforward Cougar derivative. Since the afterburning version of the J65
was not ready, the first prototype flew on 30 July 1954 with a non-afterburning
engine. In spite of this, the aircraft nearly reached Mach 1 in its maiden
flight. The second prototype, equipped with the afterburning engine, became the
second supersonic U.S. Navy aircraft, the first being the Douglas F4D Skyray.
In April 1955, the aircraft received the new designation F11F-1 (F-11A after
adoption of the unified Tri-Service naming system in 1962). Carrier trials
started on 4 April 1956 when an F11F-1 Tiger landed on and launched from USS Forrestal.
The F-11 Tiger is noted for being the first jet aircraft
to shoot itself down.[3] On 21 September 1956, during a test-firing of its 20
mm (.79 in) cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts midway through a
shallow dive. As the velocity and trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they
ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling
it and forcing Attridge to crash-land the aircraft; he survived.
In the late 1950s, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
evaluated the F-11-1F as a replacement for the F-86 Sabre, then its primary jet
fighter. World War II Spitfire pilot, and later honorary colonel, R.G. (Bob)
Middlemiss, W/C (Ret) DFC, CD, SSM, and RCAF test pilot Jack Woodman, proceeded
to California to evaluate the top two contenders, the Lockheed F-104 and the
Grumman F-11F-1F, at Edwards AFB. As a result of their recommendations, the
Canadian government selected the F-104.
In addition to the F-11A (F11F-1) fighter, Grumman also
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-1 airframe.
Seven U.S. Navy squadrons flew the F11F-1: VF-21 and
VF-33 in the Atlantic Fleet and VA-156 (redesignated VF-111 in January 1959),
VF-24 (redesignated VF-211 in March 1959), VF-51, VF-121, and VF-191 in the
Pacific Fleet.
In service, the Tiger operated from the carriers
Intrepid, Lexington, Hancock, Bon Homme Richard, Shangri-La, Forrestal,
Saratoga and Ranger. The F11F's career lasted only four years because its
performance was inferior to the Vought F-8 Crusader and the J65 engine proved
unreliable. Also, the range and endurance of the Tiger was found to be
inadequate. Thus, the Navy cancelled all orders for the F11F-1P reconnaissance
version and only 199 F11F-1 (F-11A) fighters were built.
The aircraft was withdrawn from carrier operations by
1961. It continued in service, however, in the Naval Air Training Command in
south Texas at NAS Chase Field and NAS Kingsville, until the late 1960s.
Students performed advanced jet training in the TF-9J Cougar, and upon
completing that syllabus, were given a brief taste of supersonic capability
with the F-11 before transitioning to fleet fighters.
While the F-11's fighter career was short, the Blue
Angels performed in the aircraft from 19571968, when the Tiger was replaced by
the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
Prior to the 1962 code unification, the fighter was known
as the F11F; after unification, it was redesignated as the F-11.
In 1973, two ex-Blue Angels F-11As were taken from
storage at Davis-Monthan AFB and modified by Grumman as testbeds to evaluate
inflight thrust control systems. BuNo 141853 was fitted with a Rohr Industries
thrust reverser and BuNo 141824 was kept in standard configuration as a chase
plane. Tests of the inflight thrust reversal were carried out by Grumman at
Calverton beginning in March 1974 and continued at NATC Patuxent River,
Maryland until 1975. Following the completion of these tests, both planes were
returned to storage at Davis Monthan AFB. These were the last Tigers to fly.
United States Navy
VF-21, Atlantic Fleet
VF-24, Pacific Fleet
VF-33, Atlantic Fleet
VF-51, Pacific Fleet
VF-121, Pacific Fleet
VA-156, Pacific Fleet
VF-191, Pacific Fleet
ATU-203 (redesignated VT-23)
ATU-223 (redesignated VT-26)
Blue Angels (19571969)