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 ...

On Thursday, April 24, the Platinum Fighter Sales team launched the iconic Blue Angels Bearcat from Aurora, Illinois, to Galveston, Texas, marking the first leg of its journey to a new European home.

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 ...

The Bearcat came to Indochina as a naval fighter built for a very different kind of war, but in French hands it became a hard used close support aircraft over a vast and punishing battlefield. French ...

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 ...