Six Grumman F8F Bearcats were deployed to defend Dien Bien Phu, striking from a newly built airstrip of 22,800 steel plates.

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The Grumman F8F Bearcat was one of the fastest piston-engine fighters ever built, capable of 421 mph and a climb rate that ...

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 ...

Air racer and airshow performer Howard Pardue died last week in an F8F Bearcat crash at Breckenridge, Texas. The crash occurred during an attempted low-level aerobatic maneuver, a Half Cuban Eight, ...

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 that was established at NAS ...

Like a runner waiting for the starting gun, the famous Grumman F8F-2 (without wingtips) looks ready. Tyson V. Rininger After a winter spent licking the wounds from battles lost last fall, the Bear ...

As Lotus' founder Colin Chapman once said, the best way to make a vehicle faster is to "simplify and add lightness." As true as this was for sports cars and race cars, it might be even more fitting to ...