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lonestarflight · 1 month

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"A U.S. Navy's Grumman F8F-2D Bearcat taking off from Chincoteague Naval Air Station at Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of a test involving an unmanned P4Y bomber being used in a missile test over the Atlantic Ocean."

Date: March 23, 1955

Norfolk Public Library: smc_mss0000187_x000085_012

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chadscapture · 2 years

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Grumman F8F Bearcat

#Grumman F8F Bearcat #osh22

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nocternalrandomness · 2 months

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1948 F8F Bearcat at the Camarillo Airshow

#Grumman #F8F #Bearcat #Vintage aircraft #WW2 fighter #USN #Carrier fighter #warbird #fighter aircraft #plane #prop #airshow

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opelman · 8 months

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1948 Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat NX800H by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Erickson Aircraft Collection

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thatsrightice · 3 months

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#Grumman F-14 Tomcat Bye-Bye Baby…!#<- use this tag to find all prior pages #Official Caption: A pounce of Grumman 'Cats --F6F Hellcat F8F Bearcat F7F Tigercat F-14 Tomcat ©️TOM TWOMEY/PLANEPIX.COM #page 13 #f-14 tomcat #Grumman #f6f hellcat #f7f tigercat #f8f bearcat #wwii #steve web koehler

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littlething2020 · 8 months

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Grumman F8F Bearcat, Repli de ses hautes jambes au décollage.

#warbird #aviation history #wwii #landing gear #Bearcat #f8f bearcat #Grumman

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sentinelchicken · 2 years

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One of the great ultimate expressions of the piston engined fighter as a lethal weapon would be the Grumman F8F Bearcat. ⁣ ⁣ The Bearcat would use the same Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial piston engine as the F6F Hellcat, but it would better the Hellcat in the dogfighting arena- to give the Bearcat a better power-to-weight ratio than the F6F Hellcat, the fuselage was five feet shorter and the rear fuselage was cut back, allowing a bubble canopy, the first in a US Navy production fighter. ⁣ ⁣ The wing had the same span as the Hellcat but was thinner for less drag. Compared to the Hellcat, the Bearcat only had four machine guns versus six, but the final design was 20% lighter than the F6F, had a 30% better climb rate, and was 50mph faster for a given engine setting. It only needed 2/3 the takeoff roll of the Hellcat on a carrier deck. The 13-foot three bladed prop of the Hellcat was swapped out for a 12-foot four bladed prop which also allowed for a slightly shorter landing gear than what would have been the case had the Hellcat prop been used. ⁣ ⁣ As one Commemorative Air Force Bearcat pilot put it, the Bearcat had “no missiles, no radar, just a nasty, mean little street fighter with an attitude!”⁣ ⁣ The landing gear was unusual in that the pivot point was about a foot below the main landing gear trunion- as it retracted it not only pivoted inward, it also slid outward- the top 1/3 of the main landing gear leg actually pivoted outward!⁣ ⁣ The prototype F8F flew on 21 August 1944, only nine months after the design work began! The first production Bearcat was delivered in February 1945 and the first squadron, VF-19, was operational by 21 May 1945 and was embarked on the USS Langley (CVL-27, the second carrier to bear the name) headed across the Pacific when the war ended. ⁣ ⁣ BTW, I publish aviation books now! Check us out at www.lajeteepress.com⁣ ⁣ #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #MDJ #Madras #Oregon #airport #planespotting ⁣ #EricksonAircraftCollection⁣ #Grumman #F8F #Bearcat #instagramaviation ⁣ #mil_aviation_originals #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight⁣ #AvGeekNation #AvGeekSchoolofKnowledge (at Erickson Aircraft Collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeU0JdmMRNp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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brianmoffet · 2 years

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Fireworks with F8F Bearcat by Brian Moffet

#Santa Cruz County #Aircraft #United States #Airshow #North America #Fire In The Sky #Airplane #flickr #Photographers on flickr #Bearcat #Grumman #F8F #Watsonville Airport #Monterey Bay

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usafphantom2 · 3 months

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Grumman F8F Bearcat (©️aero research)

@kadonkey via X

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thestonecuttersguild · 1 year

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Grumman F8F Bearcat, the hotrod of the skies. Oshkosh 2022

#f8f bearcat #blue angels bearcat #warbird #airplane #eaa #aviation #airventure #oshkosh

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theherdofturtles · 7 months

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Alfred f Jones flew a Grumman F8F Bearcat for the navy. He put a baby on board sticker on it.

His call sign was 'Gumby.'

#hetalia headcanon #aph america

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airmanisr · 2 years

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Grumman F8F Bearcat. by Willard Womack Via Flickr: Vietnam 1963. This Bearcat had been brought to Vietnam by the French, during their Indochina war in the mid 1950s. It had been sitting at Tan Son Nhat Airport for years. An Army Captain ask around and no one claimed it. The Air Fore said it belonged to the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese said it belonged to the French. He proceeded to make it flyable, and did not stop until he became a little nervous about the fabric on the controls and tires. After all it had only been sitting in the sun for at least ten years. He flew over to out field several times. We would fill it up with free gas and oil. In return he would buzz the field at 400 mph at about fifty feet high on departing.

#F8F #aircraft

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nocternalrandomness · 7 months

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