The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is ... 229 kn). Even so, the F3F was one of the very last American fighter planes pilots often chose to fly with the proverbial top dropped.

GRUMMAN'S FIRST FIGHTERS FOR THE U.S. NAVY WERE BARREL-CHESTED BIPLANES, known only as the F2F and F3F; they had no nicknames ... “The name ‘Grumman’ on a plane or part has the same meaning ...

and the Grumman F3F — the last biplane in service with the US military. The heroes of WWII By the start of World War II, almost all US carrier aircraft were monoplane designs. Navy carrier ...

This is the story of the Grumman ... plane was the first of its kind with retractable landing gear built in the United States. The pinnacle of this lineage of biplanes culminated with the F3F ...