#F8F Bearcat

[usafphantom2]

EAA members Todd and Kelley Whitaker took to the sky at the 2024 Central Coast AirFest in California, getting the opportunity to capture in flight the F8F Bearcat owned by Planes of Fame Air Museum.

@EAA via X

[thestonecuttersguild]

Oshkosh 2023

[nocternalrandomness]

WW2 American Classics

[thatsrightice]

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[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

[littlething2020]

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

[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.

[opelman]

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

[nelc]

Evolution of the Blue Angels

[usafphantom2]

Blue Angels F8F

@violetpilot1 via X

[thestonecuttersguild]

Workbench Wednesday.

I don't do these updates enough.

Bought a pair of Hobby Boss Bearcats at Oshkosh, 1/72 scale. I always build 72's as flying, so I spent a good amount of time gluing strips into the gear bay so that there is something to attach the gear doors to. These are pretty basic though, the wings and fuselage together are just two pieces.

[madkot]

Bearcat

[captain-price-unofficially]

US Navy Blue Angels display team flying Grumman F8F-1 Bearcats at Naval Air Station Grosse Ile in Michigan, 1946

[alex99achapterthree]

The Grumman Iron Works...

Grumman single-seat single-engine fighters. Service dates are front-line and reserve US service.

F4F Wildcat, 1940-1945.

F6F Hellcat, 1943-1952.

F8F Bearcat, 1945-1953.

[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

[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.