We did work on the A6F project as well. I wasn’t involved with that, but a good friend of mine was. When it was cancelled, he quit engineering and became a fireman!the A6F got as far as prototypes flying before Congress killed it over the navy's objections and crammed F-18 down our throats. I was a A6E Instructor and had to spend 8 months working with Gruman writing a training course for a aircraft that had been canceled