1/48 Hobby Boss F8F-1B Bearcat 80357 Brushes Bar Code: 6939319238764

Bar Code: 6939319238764

This prevents race cars from ricocheting onto the racetrack or flipping

It was a contemporary of the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc

Features silver coating to produce heavy texture of the aircraft

1/48 Hobby Boss F8F-1B Bearcat 80357 Brushes Bar Code: 6939319238764The F8F Bearcat was the last of Grumman's piston engine carrier based fighters. Two XF8F 1 prototypes were ordered in November 1943, and the first of these was flown on 21 August 1944. Grumman decided once again to utilize the most powerful engine available at the time, the Pratt & Whitney R 2800 Double Wasp the same engine that had powered both their Hellcat and Tigercat designs. This time, the engine was fitted to the smallest, lightest airframe