FREAKIN awesome! It is very rare you find F-11 tiger footage, especially footage with sound. Rumor has it, the F-8 was next in line for the Blue Angle job, but word was most of them were either worn out, serving in SEA, or being phased out to quickly.
As a Brit who is very proud of our Red Arrows i have to say the precision flying of the Blue Angels is just fantastic, was then and still is now. Furthermore the full 6 aircraft all landing together is just bloody brilliant....
The first supersonic jet of the U.S. Navy. The F-11F Grumman Tiger. My Dad, then LTjg Vern Jumper, flew the F-11F with VF-111 Sundowners at NAS Miramar during 1959-1960. He did his first WestPac cruise as a Navy pilot with VF-111 on the USS Shangri-la.
I've had alot of arguments about this. Alot of people insist the F8 Crusader was the Navys first supersonic fighter. Your right the Grumman F11 1 Tiger was yhe first. There were only 199 made and the Navy did go, and rightly so, with the F8 Mig master, buy the F11 did serve for awhile. It was supposed to be an upgrade to the F9F Cougar. I saw them fly the F11 at an airshow at Grumman in 1967.
1968 was the last year the Navy used the F-11 Tiger for the Blue Angels. They were scheduled to fly at NAS Lemoore in California the week Martin Luther King was assassinated, and of course the show was cancelled. I was 13 at the time living on base. I remember watching the F-11s fly off as a group the following Monday. Was the last time I ever saw one in flight. They were a beautiful plane. The Navy switched to F-4 Phantoms the next year. Planes of Fame in Chino California has one of the Blue Angel F-11s on static display in their collection. It undoubtedly is one of the planes I saw fly off that April day in 1968.
@ironroad18 Even better... COLOR F-11 footage with sound, and good footage of the ground show (which I find to be a very important part of the total show.) This video is a treasure!
Good ol' days of yesteryears 😊 Capt.Bob Rasmussen was NASC commandant at NAS Pensacola and his F-11F Tiger he flew as solo with the Blue Angels in 1956-58 season was our "greeter" in front of our student battalion building when I was in AOCS Class 16-81.
In January 1968 Lt. Bill Worley was killed in the same location the Tatoo Range just north of Seley, north of Hwy 80, flying the same maneuver at the same time of day in the same direction. The crash really spooked a lot of pilots that were willing to talk about it. A contributing factor was the abrupt stalling characteristics of the F-11 wing as they tried to pull out of the loop at low level.
@megashegem more like, it looks like the folland gnat the reds used. Like birds of a feather. One being the first super sonic naval jet and the other being the most agile trainer in UK service at the time. though, the Indians and some other nations used it as an light attack aircraft, which it did well as.
Quién recuerda cuando los angeles azules, propiamente los F11, vinieron a México y hicieron su espectáculo en los alrededores del aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México en 1964.
......................... somebody correct me if I'm wrong..... but isn't that the thing that Dave Thurston designed .?...I know Thurston did the Regulus....the atom bomb thing.....but ..he had a piece of the panther.. I think he mostly did the cockpit...... the cougar... that's almost the same damn thing as a panther..... the kitten... now there's an airplane for you.... but something's telling me you had a piece of the tiger too....... the guy was a cat nut... huh..?
FREAKIN awesome!
It is very rare you find F-11 tiger footage, especially footage with sound.
Rumor has it, the F-8 was next in line for the Blue Angle job, but word was most of them were either worn out, serving in SEA, or being phased out to quickly.
As a Brit who is very proud of our Red Arrows i have to say the precision flying of the Blue Angels is just fantastic, was then and still is now. Furthermore the full 6 aircraft all landing together is just bloody brilliant....
The first supersonic jet of the U.S. Navy. The F-11F Grumman Tiger. My Dad, then LTjg Vern Jumper, flew the F-11F with VF-111 Sundowners at NAS Miramar during 1959-1960. He did his first WestPac cruise as a Navy pilot with VF-111 on the USS Shangri-la.
I've had alot of arguments about this. Alot of people insist the F8 Crusader was the Navys first supersonic fighter. Your right the Grumman F11 1 Tiger was yhe first. There were only 199 made and the Navy did go, and rightly so, with the F8 Mig master, buy the F11 did serve for awhile. It was supposed to be an upgrade to the F9F Cougar. I saw them fly the F11 at an airshow at Grumman in 1967.
I think that footage is from the airshow I attended at Grumman. Grumman produced the film, mabey.
1968 was the last year the Navy used the F-11 Tiger for the Blue Angels. They were scheduled to fly at NAS Lemoore in California the week Martin Luther King was assassinated, and of course the show was cancelled. I was 13 at the time living on base. I remember watching the F-11s fly off as a group the following Monday. Was the last time I ever saw one in flight. They were a beautiful plane. The Navy switched to F-4 Phantoms the next year. Planes of Fame in Chino California has one of the Blue Angel F-11s on static display in their collection. It undoubtedly is one of the planes I saw fly off that April day in 1968.
Never saw all six aircraft land in formation before. That was a great video.thanks....
Start at 30 seconds on this recording th-cam.com/video/xchC3KbHTIs/w-d-xo.html 6 A4's landing in formation
@ironroad18 Even better... COLOR F-11 footage with sound, and good footage of the ground show (which I find to be a very important part of the total show.) This video is a treasure!
Good ol' days of yesteryears 😊 Capt.Bob Rasmussen was NASC commandant at NAS Pensacola and his F-11F Tiger he flew as solo with the Blue Angels in 1956-58 season was our "greeter" in front of our student battalion building when I was in AOCS Class 16-81.
That's best landing I have ever seen ..I have been seeing blue shows since 1975..but never a landing that tight and all 6 birds...!!!!
This video with f-11 planes is very impressive...l think there was a tv serie on the blue angels in the 60's in which they use the f-11.
Lt. Frank Gallagher # 6 solo pilot was a schoolmate and friend of mine. He was killed in an F11FA at NAS El Centro on February 1, 1967.
In January 1968 Lt. Bill Worley was killed in the same location the Tatoo Range just north of Seley, north of Hwy 80, flying the same maneuver at the same time of day in the same direction. The crash really spooked a lot of pilots that were willing to talk about it. A contributing factor was the abrupt stalling characteristics of the F-11 wing as they tried to pull out of the loop at low level.
The plane that shot itself down.
Just found old slides my Grandpop took of there show at PT. Mugu 1959. Wanna see??
Beautiful 6 ship landing they don't do that anymore.
@megashegem more like, it looks like the folland gnat the reds used. Like birds of a feather. One being the first super sonic naval jet and the other being the most agile trainer in UK service at the time. though, the Indians and some other nations used it as an light attack aircraft, which it did well as.
Quién recuerda cuando los angeles azules, propiamente los F11, vinieron a México y hicieron su espectáculo en los alrededores del aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México en 1964.
....... never sunset " Baby Blue "
......................... somebody correct me if I'm wrong..... but isn't that the thing that Dave Thurston designed .?...I know Thurston did the Regulus....the atom bomb thing.....but ..he had a piece of the panther.. I think he mostly did the cockpit...... the cougar... that's almost the same damn thing as a panther..... the kitten... now there's an airplane for you.... but something's telling me you had a piece of the tiger too....... the guy was a cat nut... huh..?