MAIN FEATURES
Barrier guard (extended)
Arrestor hook (lowered)
Tail bumper
(lowered)
Wing flap (lowered)
Twin, front hinged
perforated airbrakes
on lower fuselage
Inward retracting, single
wheel main gear unit
Inboard flap (lowered)
Rearward retracting, single
wheel nose gear unit
F9F-5 (armed and dirty)
4 x Hispano-Suiza Mk.3 20 mm (0.79 in) cannons with
170 rounds per gun in nose
AN/APG-30 gun
ranging radar
127 mm (5 in) HVAR (High
Velocity Aircraft Rocket)
on smaller outboard
hardpoints
Avionics: AN/ARC-1 VHF radio
(later additional AN/ARC-27 UHF
radio), AN/ARR-2A radio homing
receiver, AN/ARC-5 radio ranger
receiver, AN/APX-1 IFF, AN/APN-1
radio altimeter, AN/ARN-6 radio
compass
A.F.C.S. gunsight
AN/ARN-6 loop
antenna in nose
VHF antenna in fin cap
Hardpoint for bomb rack
Smaller bomb/rocket hardpoints
F9F-5 (armed)
Arrestor hook
Tailplane mid-mounted on fin
Main gear
doors
Three-piece windshield
Triangular wing root intakes
Tail
bumper
Pressurised air conditioned
cockpit
Grumman/Naval Air Engineering
Centre (Philadelphia) designed
ejector seat
Tailplane with rounded planform, swept
leading edge, straight trailing edge and
full-length balanced elevators
1 x Pratt and Whitney
J48-P-8 centrifugal turbojet
Forward-sliding
nose section for
easy armament/
avionics access
Tailpipe
cut into rear
fuselage
Rearward-sliding
bubble canopy
Wing flap with smaller
inboard flap under
wing/fuselage junction
Large aileron
with trim tab
Twin, front hinged
perforated airbrakes
on lower fuselage
Fuselage break line for
detachable rear fuselage
Engine blow-in doors
'Droop Snoot' forward-
sliding leading edge flaps
Wing fold line with wings
folding upwards 62º
Conventional mid-mounted folding
wing with minimal leading edge
sweep, greater trailing edge sweep
with large trailing edge root fillet
and dihedral
Wide, rounded, triangular fin
with blended fin/fuselage root
fillet, full length rudder
Barrier guard (retracted)
454 lt, (100 Imp gal, 120 US gal)
wing tip fuel tanks
F9F-5 (clean)
F9F: 3
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