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 ...

Deployed by France during the Indochina War, the Grumman F8F Bearcat flew more than 60,000 missions in brutal conditions.

We dive into one of the most radical and lightweight carrier fighters ever built — the **Grumman F8F Bearcat**. A machine designed to outclimb anything in the sky, squeeze onto escort carriers, and ...

Rare Bear is a F8F-2 Bearcat first flown during World War II. Now under current owner Rod Lewis Rare Bear plane got a second life after almost $15-million worth of restoration. "It is one of those ...