This episode follows Leroy Grumman’s early breakthroughs and the step by step evolution that led to the F4F Wildcat, from prewar prototypes to combat reality in the Pacific. Outmatched on paper, the ...

The F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based aircraft, saw service from the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri nearly four years later. NASM As Joe Foss ...

During the offset of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter reigned as the supreme fighter, uncontested by any American counterparts. This would be the case for the first years of the war, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Leroy Grumman's F4F Wildcat was not ...

Even in the modern age it is hard to understand how the airplanes of the Second World War managed to operate so greatly, in extreme combat conditions and even heavily damaged. What the engineers of ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s F4F-4/FM-1—the 400th FM-1 built by the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors—is currently on display in the Sea-Air Operations exhibition. It was impossible ...

Japan began the Pacific War with two major technological advantages over the U.S. Navy: the much more reliable Long Lance torpedo, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carried-based fighter, a design that ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition – Grumman F4F Wildcat & Martlet Developed by Just Flight, the Wildcat and Martlet add-on for FSX: Steam Edition ...