Stephen Grey also wrote a good article in Pilot some years ago - if you contact the Friends of The Fighter Collection, it may well have first appeared in TFC's Fighter Log.
I can recall him saying he was rather behind the aircraft after his first takeoff such was the difference from the P-51...
Other TFC Bearcat pilots over here included Paul Bonhomme, Pete Kynsey and Carl Schofield; also Eric Brown evaluated the type for the Royal Navy in the late 1940s if I remember aright. No doubt you already know of Steve Hinton adn Howard Pardue in the USA?