This was a trend that followed through to the final iteration of Grumman's Navy biplane fighters. By the time the F3F entered service in 1936, it was clear the next evolution would ditch its ...

The prime examples were Curtiss F6C Hawk, the Martin T3M and T4M torpedo bombers, and the Grumman F3F — the last biplane in service with the US military. The heroes of WWII By the start of World ...

GRUMMAN'S FIRST FIGHTERS FOR THE U.S. NAVY WERE BARREL-CHESTED BIPLANES, known only as the F2F and F3F; they had no nicknames ... line of attack and fighter aircraft an image of robustness.