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F8F Bearcat, Grumman’s extreme weight cut that turned the Hellcat’s engine into a climb monster

Grumman took the Hellcat’s powerplant and put it on a ruthless diet to create the F8F Bearcat, a compact carrier fighter built to climb like nothing else and fit where Hellcats could not. From its ...
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F8F Bearcat With State-of-Art Software To Fly at Reno Air Races

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 ...