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Grumman

In 1928 the US Navy aircraft carrier Langley participated in an exercise in which it made a surprise attack on ...

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Nine versions of this aeroplane were built for the US Navy and Coast Guard, the first appearing for the Navy ...

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Developed from the FF-1, the XF2F-1 prototype single-seat carrier-borne biplane fighter made its first flight just a few months after ...

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Developed from the FF-1, the XF2F-1 prototype single-seat carrier-borne biplane fighter made its first flight just a few months after ...

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In 1931 a very young American aviation manufacturing company - Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation - received its first contract from ...

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The G-21A eight-seat commercial amphibian flew for the first time in June 1937 and was Grumman's first aircraft produced for ...

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Ordered as a prototype on 30 June 1938 by the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the XF5F-1 was of radical concept. It ...

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The Widgeon was a military utility version of the four-five-seat commercial Model G-44 amphibian. It first went into service with ...

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Standard carrier-borne torpedo aircraft and light bomber of WWII. The first prototype flew on August 1, 1941. Later models carried ...

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The Grumman G-34 proposal of 1938 for a single-seat twin-engined shipboard fighter anticipated the realisation of an operational production example ...

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It is probably true to say that the Hellcat was designed in the spring of 1942, as important changes to ...

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Very different from the Grumman 'cats' which had preceded it, the F7F Tigercat (as it became known) was designed as ...

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Last in the line of single-seat single-engined fighters to originate from the F4F Wildcat, the Bearcat had the distinction of ...

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Originally designated the XTB3F-1 (G-70), this aircraft was designed as a torpedo bomber with a composite power plant consisting of ...

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Experience with the Grumman Goose, which served throughout World War II with great reliability, prompted the US Navy to procure ...

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The original layout of this single-seat carrier-based fighter provided for the installation of four wing-mounted Westinghouse 19XB-2B (Navy J30) axial-flow ...

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The Cougar was a swept-wing development of the earlier G-79 Panther. The fuselage was similar but the wings and tailplane ...

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The world's first variable-sweep combat aircraft, the XF10F-1 was designed as a transonic single-seat shipboard fighter with an internal armament of four ...

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The Tiger single-seat fighter flew for the first time in prototype form on 30 July 1954 - less than 15 ...

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The Tracker is a twin 1,136.4kW Wright R-1820-82WA-powered carrier-based antisubmarine search and attack aircraft, produced originally for the US Navy ...

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Modification of the S2F Tracker with an overfuselage radome housing APS-82 search radar for AEW missions. ...

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The first prototype flew on April 14, 1959. Entered production in October 1959. By 1970 a total of 265 were ...

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The first prototype flew on April 19, 1960. A total of 482 were built.

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The Hawkeye was evolved as a carrier-borne early-warning aircraft, but is suitable for land-based operations from unimproved fields. The prototype ...

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Four-seat carrierborne Command and Control Warfare aircraft development of A-6 Intruder. ...

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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat (the F-13 designation was skipped over by DoD) is a United States Navy supersonic, twin-engine, variable ...

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Designed to explore hitherto theoretical aerodynamic virtues of forward swept wings which promised improved agility, spin-proof flying characteristics, good low-speed ...

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