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Officially the U.S. Navy canceled the XTSF-1 torpedo-bomber program before a prototype could be completed.
The truth of the matter, however, is that the prototype had been partly completed, so that when Free China requested a multi-purpose aircraft from Grumman for possible local production, they merely took the unfinished G-66 prototype and finished it as the G-66C.
Due to rising tensions with Communist China the aircraft was test-flown in secrecy and shipped in crates to Formosa. It is unclear why the aircraft never reached its destinatation, but some sources pretend that a Communist Tupolev SB bomber raided the ship a few miles from the Chinese coasts.
Anyway, that was the end of the aircraft known inhouse as The Chinese Cat and which was to have been the GJ-1 彪 (Biao or "tiger cat").
"Don't believe everything you read or see!!"
This is a photo re-creation of an aircraft that never existed!
© Stéphane Beaumort / AviaDesign 2012
The truth of the matter, however, is that the prototype had been partly completed, so that when Free China requested a multi-purpose aircraft from Grumman for possible local production, they merely took the unfinished G-66 prototype and finished it as the G-66C.
Due to rising tensions with Communist China the aircraft was test-flown in secrecy and shipped in crates to Formosa. It is unclear why the aircraft never reached its destinatation, but some sources pretend that a Communist Tupolev SB bomber raided the ship a few miles from the Chinese coasts.
Anyway, that was the end of the aircraft known inhouse as The Chinese Cat and which was to have been the GJ-1 彪 (Biao or "tiger cat").
"Don't believe everything you read or see!!"
This is a photo re-creation of an aircraft that never existed!
© Stéphane Beaumort / AviaDesign 2012
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Wow, I'm super impressed you included that little "Bethpage, L. I." on the poster. I'm actually from Bethpage, the old (now empty) Grumman plant still stands, and people from the town continue to swoon over the "glory days" when smoke came from the stacks, and planes rolled out of the hangars. Just that detail alone almost fooled me into thinking this was real. Very convincing thing, my man, very convincing.