On this day in aviation history, 81 years ago (December 31, 1944), the Grumman F8F Bearcat officially entered service with the United States Navy. The Bearcat was a single-engine carrier-based fighter ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. 2/5 scale drop test vehicle; World War II; wood, painted gloss yellow; telemetry and remote control equipment; clear top. This 2/5 scale model of the Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat ...

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 ...