Famous Airplanes of the World #209: Grumman F8F Bearcat (expanded version #148)This is a Japanese-language book or magazine on aircraft and/or aircraft modeling. Some books on Japanese aircraft, such as the Aero Detail series, also contain full English text. See product description below for details.The World's Masterpiece Aircraft No. 209Grumman F8F Bearcat(No.148 expanded edition)No.209 is the expanded and revised edition of No.148 "Grumman F8F Bearcat" published in March 2012.Had the Pacific War lasted longer, the F8F Bearcat would surely have been named the best alternative fighter of World War II.In addition to detailing the development of the F8F Bearcat, its various models, deployed units, weapon systems, and performance by postwar airmen, the book also examines its comparison with the IJN's Zero successor, the Rikaze, from an aerodynamic point of view.The book is supplemented with additional color pages including side views, photographs, and section (section) drawings of the Racer, and some explanatory articles have been revised.32 color pages, 80 black and white pages, 112 pages total
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Go to cartFOCKE WULF TA152The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a single-seat, single-engine, low-wing fighter aircraft developed by the German aircraft company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH in the 1940s and employed by the Luftwaffe during World War II.A development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, it differed substantially from it by adopting a highly elongated wing and thinner profiles suitable for achieving a higher operational tangency in order to counter Allied bombers operating at high altitudes (B-17 Flying Fortress, U.S. B-24 Liberator, and British Lancaster).In fact, this aircraft also proved efficient against Allied escort fighters (P-51 Mustang and Hawker Tempest primarily) achieving several successes.The reasons for using the initials of the designer's last name (Ta), in place of the prefix Fw given to aircraft produced by Focke-Wulf, are not unanimously reported in the sources; on the one hand, it is believed to be an honor rendered to Kurt Tank for merits in the design of his famous fighters, but others indicate that it was a decision of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM), which, during 1944, determined to use the initial letters of the designer's surname to determine the designations of new aircraft; only Albert Kalkert (designer at Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG) and, indeed, Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf were beneficiaries of this change.