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04-04-2008, 05:26 PM
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#16 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | For sheer climbing ability though, the F8F rocks. It would go from a full stop to 10,000 feet in 96 seconds. For a prop, that is insane!
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04-04-2008, 06:34 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Wouldn't the Tomcat have a better rate of climb than that...lol.
The Tomcat could do things that a Wildcat could only dream of...pure science fiction by 1940s standard. | 
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04-04-2008, 09:15 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by ToughOmbre  But my favorite is the F4F. For the same reason I love the P-40. Was all about "holding the fort" until help, in the form of superior types, became available.
TO | You must like to underdog in sports allot I am guessing. 
I like the Hellcat.
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04-04-2008, 09:42 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Hunter368 You must like to underdog in sports allot I am guessing. | Yeah, but the F4F was a "live dog" with an overall kill ratio of almost 7:1. I would actually rather be in a Wildcat than a Zero. Even if I lost the fight I'd have a better chance of surviving. Same with the P-40.
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04-06-2008, 11:45 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I voted Hellcat. The Wildcat was good, but the Hellcat was it's tougher big brother. Made the most aces too out of the American planes, that's shows something.
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04-07-2008, 02:29 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | The Hellcat and the Corsair were better than the Wildcat, they should be as they entered the war much later. But I love the Wildcat, it looks like a barrel of my favorite Belgian Beer with wings attached and you gotta love the bicycle chain driven under carriage. And it was quite a good a/c in it's time frame.
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06-23-2008, 11:27 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ventura County
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Country: | Normally I'd hate to dredge old threads, but I must say, I love everything good and Grumman. I voted, obviously, for the Hellcat, Wildcat would be second, followed by Bearcat. I've gotten pictures of most of the 'cats'. That reminds me, someone mentioned making a gallery or something like that, how do I do that? Or do I just make a thread in the Aircraft pictures thread? | |
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06-24-2008, 08:47 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK
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Country:  | Deffinately the Tiger cat I took some video a couple of years ago I'll dig it out and post it again on here could that plane climb or what.
The fuslage is not much wider that the pilots shoulders they even had to offset the nose wheel to fit it in, its llike a flying pencil with two bloody great motors bolted on. | |
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06-24-2008, 09:39 AM
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#24 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Prescott Arizona USA
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Originally Posted by evangilder For sheer climbing ability though, the F8F rocks. It would go from a full stop to 10,000 feet in 96 seconds. For a prop, that is insane! | Big F8F fan..Two birds I was shock once I got up close too ...One was the F7F do to it being so big ..And the curves and the beauty of the F8F made me a fan...And they were all in one room in Palm Springs ...
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06-24-2008, 09:52 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: oregon
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Country: | I have a tough time on this one. I have known three or four pilots including Captain Jimmy "Doc" Savage, and F6F ace who swore the F7F was the hottest and most fun to fly recip fighter they ever flew - and all had time in the F6F, F7F and F8F and F4U.
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06-24-2008, 11:08 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Country:  | well, I'm the odd man out it seems. i love the Tomcat. They were absolutely awsome to see in the air, and man the things they were capable of... , carried the phoenix missile like wyatt earps six gun, and were mean when it came to carrying ordinace as well
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06-24-2008, 11:20 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK
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Country: | Found that Tiger cat video I shot at Duxford in 2005 its a bit rough but gives a look of it in the air
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06-25-2008, 06:24 AM
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#28 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Country:  | F6F Hellcat. | |
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07-04-2008, 02:48 PM
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#29 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vila Real
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Country:  | my favourite is the hellcat | |
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07-04-2008, 03:02 PM
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#30 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Country:  | Favourite is my cat "Mr Globule", 4Kg feline, so I've voted Bearcat. | |
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