F9F Panther, a former U.S. Air Force officer gives us a detailed history: Seventy-plus-years after the fact, the question of who (as in the pilot) and what (as in the plane) scored the first jet ...

And one of America’s first and most important machines of this kind is the Grumman F9F Panther. The Panther was powered by a turbojet engine that gave it a maximum speed of 579 mph (932 kph ...