The Navy's world-famous flight team has showcased the limits of military aviation for decades. These are the jets the Blue ...

Arriving too late for WWII, the Grumman F8F Bearcat never got its wartime moment—but that didn’t stop it from making history. Loved by test pilots and reborn in civilian hands, this piston-engine ...

The goal was to create a small fighter, similar to the Wildcat or Hellcat ... twenty-eight surviving F8F Bearcats were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force and entered service in ...

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 ...

nearly 80-year-old single-seat fighter should consider this 1945 Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat, which is available on AircraftForSale. If you’re interested in financing, you can do so with FLYING Finance.

Four Grumman fighter aircraft (F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat) will be featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The aircraft will be displayed on Boeing Plaza and flown in the ...

Want proof-positive? Look no further than what might be the finest piston fighter ever built. This is the story of the Grumman F8F Bearcat, World War II's greatest carrier fighter made lighter ...

Since that time, the team has featured nine fighters: the F6F Hellcat, F8F Bearcat ... Blue Angels is the Diamond 360 maneuver, where the fighter aircraft fly as close as 18 inches.

For the company’s fourth Navy fighter, sandwiched between the successful F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, Grumman engineers came up with the twin-engine F5F, nicknamed “Skyrocket.” Although the ...