#f8f bearcat

[nocternalrandomness]

Heritage Flight

The Hellcat and Bearcat were the first two aircraft models flown by the Blue Angels, shortly after the team’s inception in 1946.

#US Navy #F-18 Hornet #F8F Bearcat #F6F Hellcat #Heritage Flight #Navy aircraft #Aviation

[thestonecuttersguild]

Little hot rod. Oshkosh 2023

#f8f bearcat #warbird #airplane #eaa #aviation #airventure #oshkosh #osh23

[thatsrightice]

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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

[lonestarflight]

"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

#Grumman F8F Bearcat #Grumman F8F #F8F Bearcat #F8F #Bearcat #Fighter #Aircraft #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #Chincoteague Naval Air Station #Wallops Island #Virginia #March #1955 #target drone #my post

[littlething2020]

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

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

[hxans]

Spent a couple hours putting this together. Kiddo doesn't want the stickers on it and didn't care if I finished the stand or not.

#hxans rl #hxans pics #not official lego #knockoff lego #f8f bearcat #play studio #pereki ngārehu

[opelman]

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

#Bremerton #08-19-2023 #David Schultz Photography #Through The Lens Revalations #aircraft #nikon #nikonsigma #sigma #sigma 150-600 contemporary #1948 Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat #NX800H #Blue #Erickson Aircraft Collection #as beautiful as you want #Airplane #Air Show #Best Of Nikon #Damn Cool Photographers in the WORLD #D850 #FX #Motion Blur #Nikon FX Showcase #Nikonians #outdoor #Prop Blur #Radial Engine #r #speed #Unlimited Photos #Vehicle

[chadscapture]

Grumman F8F Bearcat

#Grumman F8F Bearcat #osh22

[alexbyrth]

F8 BearCat 

#F8F #bearcat

[sentinelchicken]

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=

#avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #mdj #madras #oregon #airport #planespotting #ericksonaircraftcollection #grumman #f8f #bearcat #instagramaviation #mil_aviation_originals #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight #avgeeknation #avgeekschoolofknowledge

[nocternalrandomness]

WW2 American Classics

#Fighter aircraft #WW2 #Airpower #P-40 Warhawk #F8F Bearcat #P-51 Mustang #Airplanes #Aviation #Combat aircraft #Warbirds

[thestonecuttersguild]

Six Seven Eight. Oshkosh 2022

#f6f hellcat #f7f tigercat #f8f bearcat #warbird #airplane #eaa #aviation #airventure #oshkosh

[brianmoffet]

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

[usafphantom2]

Grumman F8F Bearcat (©️aero research)

@kadonkey via X

[floridaboiler]

Aircraft Flown by Blue Angels since 1946

1. F6F-5 Hellcat

2. F8F-1 Bearcat

3. F9F-2 Panther

4. F9F-8 Cougar

5. F11F-1 (F-11) Tiger

6. F-4J Phantom II

7. A-4F Skyhawk

8. F/A-18 Hornet

9. F/A-18A/C

10. F/A-18E Super Hornet

Aircraft Flown by Thunderbirds since 1953

1. F-84G Thunderjet

2. F-84F Thunderstreak

3. F-100 Super Sabre

4. F-105 Thunderchief

5. F-4 Phantom II

6. T-38 Talon

7. F-16 Fighting Falcon

#Flight Friday #Blue Angels #Thunderbirds

[cursedalthoughts]

SHIPGIRL APPRECIATION DAY - Kearsarge

USS Kearsarge. Let's start this post strong: Kearsarge is single-handedly the most unique character in the game (for legal reasons, in my opinion). Her design should already let you know why, but if you aren't seeing why, I will explain.

This post will divert a little bit from the formula I established post-DoY post (the first I did). It will include very, very heavy use of headcanons that are in no way supported by the lore, but I think are neat.

Personality-wise, Kearsarge knows she is superior. She is better than those other shipgirls that have decades of experience. That's simply a fact to her, and since it's a fact; all her actions do not come as arrogant. She just does things - she disregards your orders if she thinks they're not very efficient, she organizes your documents in a way she finds to be perfect regardless of what you prefer, she charges by herself or stays behind depending on the situation.

On occasion, I neglect your will and prioritize the here and now on the battlefield. While you are the Commander, sometimes you have to let your soldiers handle things – the sooner you accept this, the better.

Her approach isn't necessarily wrong, either. Despite this, Kearsarge is a very reliable shipgirl. She is, indeed, strong - her twelve 406mm main guns are accurate and devastating by themselves, but she also has access to a squadron of five F8F Bearcat attack aircraft. Her firepower is incomparable among Eagle Union backliners.

However, her personality doesn't stay like this forever. When you as the player character get closer to her, you discover she's just autistic. She deeply cares about you, but is so expressive about her emotions and trains of thoughts, it's easy to think she's just a self-centered arrogant woman who speaks with a detached tone. She will not outright tell you she's in love with you, but she will make you some borscht! (I should point out Kearsarge is, originally, a ship commissioned by the Soviet Union, hence her Russian influence). That's her love language.

USS Kearsarge, steel version.

Design-wise, I adore how the artist YD managed to take one of the ugliest ships in World of Warships and turn her into such a beautiful, unique, one-of-a-kind shipgirls. An angel descending from the machine, a seraphim clad in steel and powered by steam. A herald from another timeline, where the Eagle Union necessitated the construction of Kearsarge. Her rigging divided symmetrically in half, her turrets and their support structure taking the shape of 4 wings of white metal, the faux wings and herself connected to a floating halo device to act as a mediator between the flesh and the steel. Her planes up in the air, a ghostly echo. Her arms stretched outwards, "fear not".

In the event Parallel Superimposition the commander visits a simulation based on the anomalous data from the hull of Anchorage. We learnt a lot about Anchorage, Dr. Aoste, Dr. Anzeel, and the Type-II hulls. We also learnt Bon Homme Richard exists in this simulation. Now, I believe this realm to be strictly speaking a simulation - not a real universe. However, when the event ended; TB had managed to gather enough information on Yorktown II, Northampton II, Hornet II, Hammann II and Langley II. Laffey II, as much as she made an appearance, couldn't be studied. I am guessing the same goes for Bon Homme. Who is to say Kearsarge doesn't come from this simulation? Or that she comes from a universe that parallels this simulation?

Hopefully I shouldn't have to point the obvious similarities between Anchorage's rigging and Kearsarge's rigging. Anchorage is like a cherub accompanying the cyber-divine orchestra of Kearsarge's guns and planes.

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THIS WOMAN WILL NOT LEAVE MY MIND I HAVE SO MUCH BRAINROT FOR KEARSARGE

hopefully it's entertaining to read and y'all can see why i like her.

#azur lane #shipgirl appreciation day #uss kearsarge