Looking for ex-Bearcat pilots to interview
I'm doing a piece for Aviation History Magazine on the Grumman F8F and am looking for people with seat time in the airplane to interview, whether in a current warbird or way-back-then experience.
Anybody out there?
Not that this has anything to do with the above question, but I was amused awhile ago to be watching a film that was, at its release, maybe 1943, a major Hollywood epic for the time. Something about Wake Island, as I remember, Hollywood soldiers in those 1930s dishpan helmets.
What amused me was that one of the lead actors had a line in which he said something like, "Yes, if it hadn't been for those Grew-mun fighters, we'd have been in trouble." In 1942-'43, people didn't even know how to pronounce the company's name, today every man-in-the-street knows how to say it, if only for the Gulfstream...