Grumman F-11 Tiger PDF eBook + Flight Manuals + Checklists

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  • 3 magazines, 3 manuals, & photos
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June 1984

  • The F-106 Bows Out
  • Grumman’s F-11F – The Reluctant Tiger
  • The DC-3/C-47 in Foreign Service

February 2006

  • Tallmantz Aviation, Part II
  • Grumman Test Pilot – Corky Meyer flies the F11F-1F
  • Northrop X-21 Research Ship
  • Name Game #3 – Foreign Edition

March 2006

  • J-35 Draken! – 50 years of Sweden’s Mach 2 delta
  • The airplanes that wouldn’t die – First in a series
  • Aircraft designations – Mysteries revealed!
  • Douglas DC-3

Manuals & Photos

  • F-11F Flight Handbook, 1960
  • F-11F Flight Handbook Supplement, 1959
  • F-11 Checklists, 1963
  • Over 180 Grumman F-11 Tiger photos

Grumman F-11 Tiger

  • F11F-1/F-11A Specs
  • Variants
  • On Display
  • Cutaway
  • Videos

General Characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Length: 45 ft 10.5 in (13.983 m)
  • Wingspan: 31 ft 7.5 in (9.639 m)
  • Width: 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) wing-tips folded
  • Height: 13 ft 2.75 in (4.0323 m)
  • Wing area: 250 sq ft (23 m2)
  • Empty weight: 13,810 lb (6,264 kg)
  • Gross weight: 21,035 lb (9,541 kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: 23,459 lb (10,641 kg)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Wright J65-W-18 afterburning turbojet engine, 7,450 lbf (33.1 kN) thrust at 8,300 rpm, military power dry, 10,500 lbf (47 kN) with afterburner

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 631 kn (726 mph, 1,169 km/h) / M1.1 at 35,000 ft (10,668 m), 654 kn (753 mph; 1,211 km/h) at sea level
  • Cruise speed: 501 kn (577 mph, 928 km/h)
  • Range: 1,110 nmi (1,280 mi, 2,060 km)
  • Service ceiling: 49,000 ft (15,000 m)
  • Rate of climb: 16,300 ft/min (83 m/s)
  • Wing loading: 84 lb/sq ft (410 kg/m2)
  • Thrust/weight: 0.5

Armament

  • Guns: 4 × 20 mm (.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon, 125 rounds per gun
  • Hardpoints: 4 with a capacity of –,with provisions to carry combinations of:
    • Rockets: Aero 6A or Aero 7A “Rocket Package”
    • Missiles: AIM-9 Sidewinder
    • Other: 150 gal drop tank

Avionics

  • AN/ARC-27A UHF COMMS
  • AN/ARA-25 UHF
  • AN/ARR-40 UHF
  • AN/ARN-14E VHF Nav
  • AN/APX-6B IFF
  • AN/APA-89 video coder
  • AN/APG-30A ranging radar

YF9F-9 – Original designation.F11F-1Single-seat fighter version for the U.S. Navy, redesignated F-11A in 1962. 199 built and later production aircraft had a longer nose. One was used for static tests with a further production of 231 aircraft cancelled.

F11F-1P – Designation of a Navy photo reconnaissance version, 85 were cancelled.

F11F-1F Super Tiger (G-98J) – F11F-1 fitted with the J79-GE-3A engine, two built.

F11F-1T – Proposed tandem-seat trainer variant; unbuilt.

  • 138619 – Stricklands Surplus in Wilmington, North Carolina.
  • 138645 – NAF El Centro in Imperial County, California.
  • 141735 – Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.
  • 141783 – MAPS Air Museum in Canton, Ohio.
  • 141790 – Grissom Air Museum at Grissom Air Reserve Base near Peru, Indiana.
  • 141802 – Lawson Creek Park in New Bern, North Carolina.
  • 141811 – Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas.
  • 141824 – Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
  • 141828 – National Museum of Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
  • 141832 – Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.
  • 141851 – NAES Lakehurst, New Jersey
  • 141853 – Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado.
  • 141859 – Veteran’s Memorial Park in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
  • 141864 – NAS Oceana Air Park, Virginia.
  • 141868 – Planes of Fame Air Museum in Valle, Arizona.
  • 141872 – Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • 141882 – Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, Florida.
  • 141869 – Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tennessee.