Rod Dean - Grumman Piston Engine Fighters
Schedule
Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Kents Hill Community Centre | Milton Keynes, EN
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Rod Dean returns with the history of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation’spiston engine fighters. The first aircraft it built for the U S Navy was the 1931 two seat
biplane fighter FF-1. Despite being two seat, the FF-1 was faster than the current U S
Navy single seat fighter, the Boeing F4B-1, by virtue of it’s Grumman designed retractable
undercarriage. This was the start of a very long association between Grumman and the
US Navy, primarily with fighters – from the FF-1 through to the final F-14 swing wing jet
fighter – but also various attack and support aircraft
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