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Offline Mad38cat

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« on: July 27, 2004, 02:38:20 AM »
I was lucky enough once to see an actual bearcat, along with the P51 known as Gunfighter...the bearcat performed just as good as the mustang....to me it was the best WW2 Grumman fighter, albiet a late one.
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Offline Pongo

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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2004, 10:17:13 AM »
Oh I think it will outperform the pony quite nicley. I imagine the pony is faster at alt and has way longer range. But other then that.
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Offline Drano

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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Mad38cat
to me it was the best WW2 Grumman fighter, albiet a late one.



So late in fact that it (operationally anyway) actually missed the war. It was flying and I believe it had been deployed but the war ended.

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