Built for Greatness The Grumman F8F Bearcat seemed destined for aviation greatness from its inception. Designed to outpe ...

This 1945 Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Is a Rare, Elite ‘AircraftForSale’ Top Pick Too late for World War II, this fast single-seater found its calling on the racecourse. FLYING Staff ...

Grumman F8F Bearcat: The US Navy’s Speed Demon Fighter Meet the Grumman F8F Bearcat – An Air Racers Delight – As a contrast to the large Gruman F6F Hellcat, which has often been described as ...

The F8F Bearcat, Grumman’s last piston-engine fighter aircraft, was introduced at the end of World War II and served both the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps throughout the middle part of the 20th ...

Object Details Author Polmar, Norman Subject United States Marine Corps Aviation History Notes Also issued online Contents Fighter Aircraft -- The First Carrier-Based Fighter: Vought VE-7 -- A Really ...

he F8F Bearcat was designed for WWII’s fiercest battles — but instead found itself fighting for France in a brutal colonial war, far from where its creators imagined ...

Aeronautical engineers designed this 2/5-scale model of Grumman's F8F-1 Bearcat fighter to investigate the characteristics of flight at high-subsonic speeds. Carried aloft beneath the wing of a B-17 ...

SOUPED-UP BEARCAT One would think that racing a Grumman F8F Bearcat would be very World War II-ish seat-of-the-pants stuff. But the "Rare Bear" will be using PI System software from San Leandro ...

By Clark Pierce Editor The static display of an F8F Grumman Bearcat fighter in Blue Angels colors was a natural attraction to Al Taddeo, the last living member of the original Blue Angels team ...

Aside from possibly the Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Hawker Sea Fury was the ultimate carrier-based piston engine fighter of the dying days of World War Two and the very early Cold War.