Today’s Top Pick is a 1945 Grumman American F8F-2 Bearcat. Have you ever gotten your airplane going as fast as it will go, with power, prop, and mixture settings just right, and imagined you ...

Built for speed and power, the Grumman F8F Bearcat was one of the fastest piston-engine fighters ever made. Designed for dominance, but did it arrive too late? Watch to uncover its story!

The aircraft, a Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat (BuNo. 122674)-the last piston-engine fighter designed for the U.S. Navy-is being restored from the inside out under the watchful eye of John McMahon ...

Due to their small size, Bearcats have proved popular in air racing, and one particular Grumman F8F Bearcat – the highly modified “Rare Bear” – dominated the Reno Air Races for decades.

Look no further than what might be the finest piston fighter ever built. This is the story of the Grumman F8F Bearcat, World War II's greatest carrier fighter made lighter, faster, and better.

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, ...

Four Grumman fighter aircraft (F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat) will be featured at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The aircraft will be displayed on Boeing Plaza and flown in the ...

Airshow performer and air race pilot Howard Pardue died on Wednesday when his Grumman F8F Bearcat crashed shortly after takeoff from his home field of Stephens County Airport in Breckenridge ...

Packing up to 4,500 horsepower in a muscular 8,700-pound package, Rare Bear is a radically modified, one-of-a-kind version of a Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat. It has won more Unlimited races than any ...

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 that was established at ...

"Still, it was amazing." 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 ...

The Air Legends Foundation will bring the four Grumman aircraft — the F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat — to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture. The Air Legends Foundation will ...