The Exhaust ports at the Seven O'Clock position on the R-3350.

The barrel of the M3 Cannon where it enters and exists the wing leading edge.

A-1E/AD-5 Skyraiders are currently listed in the $450,000 range for a restored, operational aircraft.

A Grumman F4F Wildcat on the ramp at Thunder Over Michigan. This particular aircraft was assigned to the U.S.S. Wolverine, a training ship operating in Lake Michigan. The aircraft ditched in Lake Michigan some time during WWII, was recovered in 1991 and has been rendered airworthy since. The aircraft is powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series engine and is owned by Stephen J. Craig of S J Craig Farms, LLC, of Lawrence, KS.

A very simple landing gear arrangement on the Wildcat in contrast to the P-40 Warhawk, F-6F Hellcat or P-51D Mustang.

In fact, the landing gear is similar to the F-3F biplane, which is not surprising, as the F-4F originally started out as a Biplane design.

Business end of the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 motor, rated at 1350 hp. This Wildcat was manufactured by Grumman in 1943. The aircraft is an F-3F-3.

A second Wildcat also appeared at TOM, this being a General Motors FM-2 of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Texas.

The FM-2 was designed for operation off the shorter Escort Carriers of WWII fame, including the U.S.S. Liscome Bay, the U.S.S. Gambier Bay, the U.S.S. St. Lo, U.S.S. Wake Island and U.S.S. Bismark Sea, among 86 Escort Carriers built between 1940 and 1945, the U.S.S. Tinian being the last, commissioned on September 5, 1945, three days after the Japanese surrender.

Of those 86, six were sunk in combat. The last of the carriers to be decommissioned was the Badoeng Straight, in May, 1957.

Tailfeathers of N18P, the GM FM-2, which was a heavier duty example based on the original F4F Wildcat designed. The shorter Jeep Carriers required a rugged aircraft designed for harsher conditions and harder landings on their short, wooden planks.