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Description
| Manufacturer: | Grumman |
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| Base model: | F11F | ||
| Designation: | F11F | ||
| Version: | -1 | ||
| Nickname: | Tiger | ||
| Equivalent to: | F-11A F11AF-11A | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | ||
| Designation Period: | 1922-1962 | ||
| Basic role: | Fighter | ||
| Crew: | Pilot | ||
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Specifications
| Length: | 46' 11" | 14.3 m | |
| Height: | 13' 3" | 4.0 m | |
| Wingspan: | 31' 7" | 9.6 m | |
| Wingarea: | 250.0 sq ft | 23.2 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 14,330 lb | 6,498 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 21,280 lb | 9,650 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 24,078 lb | 10,919 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Wright J65-W-18 (A/B 10,500Lb | ||
| Thrust (each): | 7,400 lb | 3,356 kg | |
Performance
| Range: | 1,275 miles | 2,053 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 578 mph | 930 km/h | 502 kt |
| Max Speed: | 753 mph | 1,212 km/h | 655 kt |
| Climb: | 18,000 ft/min | 5,130 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 41,900 ft | 12,770 m | |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Richard Mangels Sun City, CA | To Tom McGreevey,It would be a pleasure to help you with your book. I will write you in the next two weeks about the information that I know of.Please send me your E-MAIL address. Hope to hear from you soon. 07/01/2008 @ 21:30 [ref: 21740] |
| Richard Mangels Sun City, CA | To Tom McGreevey,It would be a pleasure to help you with your book. I will write you in the next two weeks about the information that I know of.Please send me your E-MAIL address. Hope to hear from you soon. 07/01/2008 @ 21:29 [ref: 21739] |
| Tom McGreevey Durham, NC |
Any chance you could put me in touch with Richard Mangels re F-11F squadrons. I am developing a reference book on the deployments of attack carriers and the squadrons that were on board for the deployments. I have VA-156 on board the Shangri-La for one Westpac cruise flying the F11F-1: March 8, 1958 to November 21, 1958. VA-156 was redesignated VF-111 in January 1959 and I have that squadron on board the Shangri-La for a March 9, 1959 to October 3, 1959 Westpac cruise with the F11F-1. I have confirmed the latter but not the former. VF-111's next cruise was on the Hancock and I can confirm that because we (VF-114) shared a ready room with them. Any help you can give me will certainly be appreciated. Tom McGreevey 06/08/2008 @ 08:03 [ref: 21205] |
| Vince Guarino , CA | Chase Field figured large in my pre Navy years from age 9 to 12. It had the only swimming pool in Beeville. At the time, Chase was mothballed between the Korean and Vietnam Wars. My parents owned the Bee Jive Cafe on Washington Street next to the Rialto movie theater. By 1957 I was in the Navy myself, eventually an AG2 aboard the USS Intrepid CVA 11 from 1959-1961. From my duty station on the 07 level we had a great view of flight operations. The Tigers we had aboard all survived the cruise, though sometimes the gear would collapse on a hard landing. I beleive I recall one with a hung rocket hitting the wire with force, freeing the rocket which took off on momentum straight down the deck and off the bow. We had a young Tiger pilot aboard, John McCain, on the Med Cruise of 60-61. We all knew he was an admiral's son and so watched him especially. He was a good pilot. 06/05/2008 @ 15:28 [ref: 21187] |
| RL Berry Dallas, TX | My first duty station after boot camp and A School in Memphis was Beeville, TX and VT-26. I joined the Tigers of VT-26 January 1, 1966. The Vietnam War was in full bloom and I had no idea how lucky I was to be in Beeville.
I remember the intense heat of the summers, the poor housing, getting married, and the birth of our first child, a little Italian restaurant, going to Hemisphere in San Antonio. The roar of two F8 fleet guys on a low run over our flight line, rotating straight up over our tower, hitting their afterburners and hearing the cheers of what seemed to be everyone on the base except the CO. Almost getting blown up by the F-11 on a run up at 2:00 a.m. when the fuel control value failed. When I left Beeville with my family, I did not have a clue how much my life would be influenced by the Navy and an airplane, the F-11. Thank you, Captain Pritchard, Grumman and the United States Navy. 04/06/2008 @ 10:07 [ref: 20350] |
| RL Berry Dallas, TX | My first duty station after boot camp and A School in Memphis was Beeville, TX and VT-26. I joined the Tigers of VT-26 January 1, 1966. The Vietnam War was in full bloom and I had no idea how lucky I was to be in Beeville.
I remember the intense heat of the summers, the poor housing, getting married, and the birth of our first child, a little Italian restaurant, going to Hemisphere in San Antonio. The roar of two F8 fleet guys on a low run over our flight line, rotating straight up over our tower, hitting their afterburners and hearing the cheers of what seemed to be everyone on the base except the CO. Almost getting blown up by the F-11 on a run up at 2:00 a.m. when the fuel control value failed. When I left Beeville with my family, I did not have a clue how much my life would be influenced by the Navy and an airplane, the F-11. Thank you my CO, Captain Pritchard, Grumman and the United States Navy. 04/06/2008 @ 10:02 [ref: 20349] |
| Richard Mangels Sun City, CA | VA-156 was the first to receive the F11F-1 in March of 1957.I was a plane captain on it.Va-156 was at Moffett Navy Air Station near Mountin View Ca.The plane was used by the Blue Angels for many years after it was taken out of the fleet in 1961.The plane was great to look at,but the engine was under powered.In Nov.1957 VA-156 was aboard the USS Handcock for two weeks.In March 1958 it went on a six month cruise,that end 9 months later.The plane had no zero ground ejection and the loose of two officers (LtJG OBER & LtJG Nunn).They were great officers.VA-156 officers & NCO'S were sadden by the lose.In May of 1959 it off to the USS Lexington.A long with 8 NCO'S left the ship in Japan and sent back to Tresure Island,Ca.,via a troop transport for honarable release.In July of 1959. 03/26/2008 @ 11:53 [ref: 20244] |
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| James Marvin Williams Jacksonville, FL | I was stationed at Chase Field and flew the F11F. On my last day of flight training (3/3/66), I had three flights scheduled that day. The first was a target training flight in the Gulf. I never made it as my plane caught on fire over Sinton TX. The fire burned out all my hydraulics, and at 12m feet, it rolled over and went into a spin. I had to eject and the plane went into an alley, two blocks from the center of Sinton with a school right accross the street. There were no injuries to anyone on the ground. I received three compression fractures, which ended my flying career.
I think everyone that every flew the plane will agree that it was a sweet aircraft to fly in that time. 01/31/2008 @ 18:34 [ref: 19494] |
| Clive Lynch Clearwater, FL | After ADJ-A school, I was stationed in Beeville Tx, VT-26 in early 1962 through Sept. 1966. I sure have fond memories of Beeville and Chase Field. My 1st assignment was washing the F11s behind the hanger. I was then assigned to the tow shop for about 6 months, then to the flight line till I left Beeville. I remember the plaque in the ready room of a tiger mounter on a panther. As a young airdale, I got in some trouble (3 capts mast in 4 months for fighting at the club) and had to go TAD to the brig in Corpus for 30 days. I worked for the toughest CPO in the world - Chief Lund. He would tell us "off your ass, on your feet, out of the shade and into the heat", when flights were returning. I loved that old SOB. Spent most weekends in Houston (hitchhiked) chasing girls. Cought my 1st wife there. Wish I never went to Houston because of that. Spent the rest of my airdale days in sea going VAW outfits in Norfolk. Switched to DP in 1969. retired a DPSC in 1982. 11/05/2007 @ 10:44 [ref: 18405] |
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