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F8F Bearcat, Grumman’s extreme weight cut that turned the Hellcat’s engine into a climb monster
Grumman took the Hellcat’s powerplant and put it on a ruthless diet to create the F8F Bearcat, a compact carrier fighter built to climb like nothing else and fit where Hellcats could not. From its ...
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Grumman cats: How the Wildcat, Hellcat, and Bearcat dominated the Pacific
From the stubby F4F Wildcat barely holding the line in 1942 to the powerful F6F Hellcat that turned the tide of the Pacific ...
Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...
Four Grumman fighter aircraft (F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat) will be featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The aircraft will be displayed on Boeing Plaza and flown in the ...
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, Calif ...
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