From the stubby F4F Wildcat barely holding the line in 1942 to the powerful F6F Hellcat that turned the tide of the Pacific ...
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 ...
Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...
On March 18, 1945, Lt. j.g. David L. Mandt took off from Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station to test out the guns on an experimental fighter plane, the XF8F-1 Bearcat. Mandt was a veteran ...
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 ...