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André Alexis - American Music Club - Tori Amos - Laurie Anderson - Charlie Angus - ''Atanarjuat'' - Margaret Atwood
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Robertson Davies - The Dears - ''Definitely Not the Opera'' - Depeche Mode - Colleen Dewhurst - Ani DiFranco - Julie Doiron - Clive Doucet - Tommy Douglas
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Fred J. Eaglesmith - Kathleen Edwards - Eric's Trip - 54-40 - Timothy Findley - ''Futurama''
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Howard Hampton - Sarah Harmer - Steven Heighton - Kristin Hersh - The Hidden Cameras - Tomson Highway - Nalo Hopkinson
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F8F Bearcat
The Grumman F8F Bearcat was the company's final piston engined fighter aircraft. Designed for the interceptor fighter role, the design team's aim was to create the smallest, lightest fighter that could fit around the Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp engine (carried over from the F6F Hellcat) and the armament of four 20mm cannon. Compared to its predecessor, the Bearcat was 20% lighter, had a 30% better rate of climb, and was 50 mph (80 km/h) faster. In comparison with the Vought F4U Corsair, the Bearcat was marginally slower but was much more heavily armed, more manuverable and climbed faster. Many features of its design were inspired by a captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter that had been handed over to the Grumman facilities.
The F8F prototypes were ordered in November 1943 and first flew on 21 August, 1944, a mere nine months later. The first production aircraft was delivered in February 1945 and the first squadron was operational by 21 May, but World War II was over before the aircraft saw combat service.
Postwar, the F8F became the major Navy fighter, equipping 24 fighter squadrons. Their performance was such that they outmatched even many early jets, but that advantage soon evaporated; the Grumman F9F Panther largely replaced it in USN service.
Other nations that flew the Bearcat included the French and Thai air forces. The French aircraft saw combat service in French Indochina in a fighter-bomber role in the early 1950s.
A fairly large number of Bearcats survive; approximately eleven are airworthy, eight are restored for display and approximately a dozen are wrecks or restoration projects. Bearcats have been fairly popular in air racing, and one, the ''Rare Bear'' owned by Lyle Shelton is the holder of the record as the "fastest propeller-driven aircraft in the world" (averaged over a 3km course) at 528.33 mph (850.26 km/h), set in 1989.
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Bearcat Interceptor
In the Wing Commander series of computer games, the fictional F-104 Bearcat was the Terran Confederation Space Force's first attempt at a dedicated interceptor. The Bearcat, unlike the later Wasp, evolved into more of a "chopped and channeled" dogfighting-optimized version of the larger multirole F-103 Excalibur than a pure interceptor, equipped with four auto-tracking light tachyon guns and two racks of four image recognition missiles. A speedy craft, the Bearcat's top speed of 550 kilometers per second was unmatched by any other fighter of its day. However, the finely tuned top speed and heavy weapons loadout came at an extremely high economic cost, and the fighter had a very short lifespan - advancing technology obsoleted it in a short time. The Bearcat was introduced in 2671, just too late for the Kilrathi War, and was phased out of front-line service by 2680.
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Namesake
The Bearcat was named for the real-world Grumman F8F Bearcat fighter, a propellor-driven carrier fighter during the Second World War. The F8F was the culmination of a series of successful propellor-driven fighters built by Grumman (the F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat and F7F Tigercat preceded it) and would be eventually succeeded by one final "cat" fighter in the late 1960s, the F-14 Tomcat.
Category:Wing Commander spacecraft
Savoy Bearcats
The Savoy Bearcats were an eleven-piece jazz band, led by Leon Abbey, which was the house band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City from its opening in 1926 to 1928. The band's name was changed from the Charleston Bearcats while they were at the Savoy. After leaving the Savoy they became known as Leon Abbey's Band.
The band's drummer was Tiny Bradshaw.
Category:Jazz ensembles
Stutz Bearcat
The Stutz Bearcat was an American luxury high-performance sports car made by the Stutz Motor Company. An evolution of the company's 1911 roadster, the Bearcat name lasted from 1914 through 1939. A later Bearcat was produced in the 1970s and 1980s by the revived Stutz Motor Car of America company.
Classic Bearcat
The original Bearcat was based on the company's competitive 1911 Indy car and featured a powerful 361 in³ (5.9 L) "T-head" straight-4 engine. Output was 50 hp (37 kW), and the gearbox was placed in the rear as in a modern transaxle. A later straight-6 version of the T-head engine produced 80 hp (60 kW).
The original Bearcat lasted from 1914 through 1917. It used a 6388 cc straight-4 engine.
The car's "underslung" design was unusual for the time, and its low weight, balance, and power made it an excellent racer. For example, in 1912, Stutz Bearcats won 25 of the 30 auto races they were entered in. But the Bearcat was sparse, with no doors and a tiny "monocle" windscreen in front of the driver.
The Bearcat was also the car used in Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker's record coast-to-coast drive, inspiration for the later Cannonball Run outlaw race and film spinoffs. Baker drove his Bearcat from California to New York in eleven days, seven hours, and fifteen minutes, shattering the previous record.
Owning a Stutz Bearcat became a famous status symbol for the very wealthy of the era.
Modern Bearcat
The Bearcat name was quickly resurrected for the new Stutz Motor Car of America, but production lagged behind 1970's Blackhawk. The original 1967 design of the new Bearcat was based on Virgil Exner's Duesenberg "Revival Car" concept, but a production bearcat was not manufactured until 1979. That model used the Pontiac Grand Prix chassis shared with the Blackhawk, and was essentially a targa-top coupe.
The Bearcat switched with the Blackhawk to the Pontiac Bonneville chassis the next year, with the
F8F Bearcat
0.5 inches isn't 127mm... I suspect that one of those decimal points is in the wrong place, but since I don't know which one I can't change it.
62.252.32.13 22:34, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
: I see someone has changed this, but is the change right? (i.e. do you (the changer) actually know or are you just more confident than me in guessing?) 0.5 inches seems awfully thin as the diameter of a rocket, particularly for only carrying 4 of the things. 62.252.32.13 00:12, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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