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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three fighters. One war. From the stubby F4F Wildcat that held the line in 1942, to the deadly F6F Hellcat that crushed the Zero, and finally the lightning-fast F8F Bearcat that arrived just as the ...