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Grumman Biplane Fighters in Action КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Grumman Biplane Fighters in Action (Aircraft Number 160) ByRichard S Dann Publisher:Squadron/Signal Publications Inc.1996 52PagesISBN: 0897473531PDF12 MBAs a Student Naval Aviator I happened to be in the right place at the right lime. In 1986. I was in ihe middle of flight school in Pensacola. Florida. It was the 75th Anniversary of naval aviation, and on top of that, the movie "Top Gun" had just been released.Go back fifty-five years to 1941. and picture young men with their minds on the air. watch­ing Pathe film clips from the air war in Europe just before the feature film starring Ralph Bellamy. Fred McMurrav and Erroll Flynn. The movie, of course, was "Dive Bomber" and I cannot help but think that young men of that era made up their minds to be Navy pilots inspired by the classic lines of Fred McMurray's Grumman F3F-2.On 10 October 1941. VMF-211 turned in its last Grumman F3F-2. bringing the era of ihe biplane as a front-line fighter platform to a close. It was a mere ten years earlier.when Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation's first aircraft, the XFF-I. took to the air. usher­ing in the era of all-metal monocoque c

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Author

USN (Ret.) LCDR Richard S. Dann, Joe Sewell, Ernesto Cumpian, Don Greer

Publisher

Squadron/Signal Publications Inc

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780897473538

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Military, Engineering, History

Rating

4.3 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14