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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 ...