Carrier-based fighter Grumman FF-1. Aircraft manufacturing firm Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation began work with the U.S. Navy in the late 1920-ies First, she collected the floats for seaplanes, and then began to build airplanes in their own projects, trying to use in their designs the most modern technology the First two seaplane G-1 and G-2, the proposed military was intended to perform reconnaissance tasks of the Machine all-metal construction was fitted with a retractable landing gear with a very original mechanism of their release, interested experts from the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy (BuAer): they rightly felt it necessary to use it on combat aircraft to reduce drag and increase speed flight, Especially needed in this chassis carrier-based fighter.
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