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Grumman F8F Bearcat, the tiny carrier fighter built to outclimb the Hellcat
Grumman wanted a fighter that climbed harder than the Hellcat, but could still operate from the Navy’s smallest escort carriers, and the result was the brutally compact F8F Bearcat. This episode ...
On this day in aviation history, 81 years ago (December 31, 1944), the Grumman F8F Bearcat officially entered service with the United States Navy. The Bearcat was a single-engine carrier-based fighter ...
Grumman engineers, led by chief Engineer William Schwendler, sought to fill a major gap in the low and medium altitude ranges for U.S. Navy carrier-based fighters. The goal was to create a small ...
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