The Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing is undertaking a comprehensive restoration of its rare Grumman F8F-2 ...

The ** crash of an F8F Bearcat** at Breckenridge ... Again, according the NTSB, the witness then saw “the airplane’s wings roll suddenly before the airplane entered a near vertical descent.

This is it. This is a hit. This is an F8F Bearcat.' ” On later dives with the Navy, he said, researchers noted the shape of the air intakes in the wings, their spacing from the machine guns and ...

Today’s Top Pick is a 1945 Grumman American F8F-2 Bearcat. Have you ever gotten your airplane going as fast as it will go, with power, prop, and mixture settings just right, and imagined you ...

Taken during the Wings of Eagles Final Victory Air Show 1995 at the National Warplane Museum, the following clip shows three iconic Grumman Ironworks warbirds, the F8F Bearcat, the F6F Hellcat and ...

This is the story of the Grumman F8F Bearcat ... onto each Bearcat. Other weight-saving measures included installing four 50. caliber M2 Browning machine guns in the Bearcat's wings instead ...