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 ...
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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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