Built for Greatness The Grumman F8F Bearcat seemed destined for aviation greatness from its inception. Designed to outpe ...

Meet the Grumman F8F Bearcat – An Air Racers Delight – As a contrast to the large Gruman F6F Hellcat, which has often been described as more pugnacious than elegant, ...

By Clark Pierce. Editor. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The four planes were a Grumman F8F Bearcat, a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber and two Grumman F7F Tigercats. Rod Lewis, who owns the four planes in a collection of more than 30 WWII aircraft, ...

F8F Bearcat – Grumman’s last piston-engine fighter aircraft, it was introduced at the end of World War II and served both the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps throughout the middle part of the 20th ...

Fans of the beefy Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat would have to find comfort in Rare Bear’s second place finish in the Unlimited Gold division at the 2009 National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada ...