F9F-8T Cougar / VT-21Grumman F9F 8T Cougar airplane model. The F9F Cougar is the swept wing version of its forerunner, the F9F Panther Grumman's first jet fighter plane. As MiG 15s tangled with the slower, less agile Panthers and McDonnell Banshees over Korea, the U. S. Navy requested a swept wing F9F design from Grumman. The first Cougars were delivered in November of 1951, a year after the debut of the MiG 15 and too late to see combat in Korea. But the Cougar, built as

nearly 800 Voodoos had been built

The robust design was progressively improved and was heavily armed

Planned as an attack aircraft with four 20mm guns

While based on the original Gulfstream I - the G-II shares the same forward fuselage and cross section - there are more differences than similarities

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leading to a 100-seat design based on input from launch customer Lufthansa

Viscount Continental Airlines airplane model

The NH90 military helicopter is a modern

S-58 missions included armed assaults

The A-10 and OA-10 Thunderbolt IIs are the first Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces

stand-off surveillance of an area in direct support of U

A formidable fighter aircraft