TEEJ,
correct that...it's just that the wording of this topic was "Allied aircraft" which I took to mean WW2-only....in that sense then yes F8F would qualify IMO for anything up to 1945!
It may look purposely like a toy...in fact you can see it's the same sort of genre as the MB5 with same or similar speed and much higher rate of climb (significantly lighter) and of course the engine is the favoured USN air cooled radial (P&W?) instead of the liquid cooled inline V(?) RR.