Airline pilot Mark Watt flies Steve Craig's Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat at an airshow in 2005. Doug Fisher Steve Craig, a hospitality industry entrepreneur in Lawrence, Kansas, is one of those rare and ...

For the company’s fourth Navy fighter, sandwiched between the successful F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, Grumman engineers came up with the twin-engine F5F, nicknamed “Skyrocket.” Although the ...

The opening of the air war over the Pacific was brutal. Allied pilots found themselves facing an enemy whose fighters appeared to be able to run rings around their own. The most notable of these ...

NATHANIEL LEVINE [email protected] A World War II Grumman F4F Wildcat flies past the tower on a low pass at the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport on Saturday, March 22, 2025.

A World War II Grumman F4F Wildcat flies past the tower on a low pass at the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport on Saturday, March 22, 2025. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II ...