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 ...

The Bearcat had everything needed to become one of America’s great piston fighters: speed, climb, firepower, and a design shaped by hard lessons from combat in the Pacific. But it arrived too late to ...

SOUPED-UP BEARCAT One would think that racing a Grumman F8F Bearcat would be very World War II-ish seat-of-the-pants stuff. But the "Rare Bear" will be using PI System software from San Leandro, Calif ...

The Grumman F8F Bearcat was designed as a lightweight, high-performance naval fighter intended to counter late-war threats. Entering service just as World War II ended, it never faced the enemies it ...