Crash of the F9F Panther on the USS Midway in 1951

looks like a banshee or demon..F2H

such a lucky boy!

Was that a helmet @ 0.19 ??

i´ve got an F9F Panther fron Airworld in 1:5,5 scale. This happend to me one time. I´ve been flying up to 100 m of the ground and i tried to test the slowspeed options of that plane. it was pretty amazing because the F9 flews at realy slow speed, but then i was a bit to slow an it stalled. Same as you can see in the video my Panther stalled over the left wing. But i could recover the plane and land it safely without a damage :-). That wa my first flight with the Airworld F9F Panther
david

1:5.5 scale? You have a model that's over 7 feet long?

yes i have^^. it´s from the german modeler Airworld. I love that plane-very easy to fly:-).
At the moment i´ve got between 50 or 60 flights on it and its still amazing^^
cheers david

No not alive "today".............

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Thanks for the posting, very interesting and informative.

jager........

my grandfather was on the midway in the vietnam war

Looks like an F2H to me, the wings are too long and their dihedral is too high to be an F9F.

I think it is definitely an F9F. I checked other videos of them and they look the same. I'll check with my Uncle, too. He's still alive although very ill with Lou Gherig's disease. But he should remember.

Very sharp of you to notice things like this, though. Most would be too involved with the crash to note if it were a DC-3 or a 747.