Scale model 1/32 F8F-1B Bearcat Trumpeter 02284

1/32 Scale F8F-1B Bearcat Kit, Trumpeter 02284.

The kit includes:
13 seniors with details
transparent hood
photoetching
rubber tires
decal,
scheme for painting the model,
step by step instructions.

Length: 230 mm Width: 91.3 mm

The F8F "Bearcat" was the fastest rotorcraft Grumman ever built, but it arrived too late to see combat in World War II. It was intended as a carrier-based fighter-interceptor. In modern parlance, it could be called "Hellcat Lite"; The F8F featured an all-metal, low-wing monoplane cantilever design, folding carrier wings, self-sealing fuel tanks, four .50 caliber machine guns, and a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine. The US Navy ordered two prototypes, the XF8F-1. in November 1943. After its first flight nine months later, the Bearcat prototype outperformed its heavier predecessor, including a thirty percent better rate of climb. Grumman delivered the first production F8F-1 in February 1945, just six months after its first flig