Excellent F6F Documentary

[halcyon]

Found this on youtube...just finished watching the whole thing.
Excellent.
(each part is about 8-9 minutes long)

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

I don't think the in-game F6F has the power shown in this documentary, but it's still a tough plane all around.

[Blooz]

F6F has power to burn.

Thing is you need to match it against its historic counterpart...the Zero.

[BaldEagl]

Wow, that was cool.  What was that at Truk?  148 zekes downed to 8 Hellcats?  Wow.  19 K/D for the Hellcat overall during the war?  Wow.  No wonder I like that plane

[CFYA]

Blooz struck the right note......it was a Zero killer. In AH its not even on the radar compared to a lot of planes but to the Zero it is a monster!

[Brooke]

That's from the Dogfights series, which has other great shows in it, too.  I like that series.

[Daubie]

I'm relatively nooobie here, but this is my favorite kick-donkey plane, so far.  This is what I used to learn carrier landings here.  It is carrier or land base, kicks quite a punch in attack mode: bombs, rockets, 6-.50 cal with a good supply of rounds for strafing and if I ever learn how (according to Mathman) is a good dogfighter.  I can tear up a town pretty good in just one sortie.  And it takes a lot of damage to kill it.

Thanks for the links.

[Nwbie]

OMG

They are all HO weenies




lol


wonder if any players are gonna shutup about it now


NOT

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by Nwbie
OMG

They are all HO weenies




lol


wonder if any players are gonna shutup about it now


NOT

I was watching for that.  I didn't see a single HO attempt.

[Sincraft]

great plane, takes some damage but just not enough speed to keep away from being ganged, even at a 'safe' distance.  It's sterile in most environments as you can always find a better plane for the situations that this game presents.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Sincraft
It's sterile in most environments as you can always find a better plane for the situations that this game presents.

That's what most believe ... until they run into a guy that knows what he is doing in a HellCat ... but by then it's too late and they are dead and wondering what the heck just happened.

The F6F is probably the best all-around plane in the hanger. Not exceptional at anything, but good at a lot of things.

[Bosco123]

here is a picture of My model of the hellcat. the man who flew mine is Hamilton Mcwerder his lte color scheme and I met one of his squadmates also its a small world isin't it
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[JimBeam]

Originally posted by Sincraft
great plane, takes some damage but just not enough speed to keep away from being ganged, even at a 'safe' distance.  It's sterile in most environments as you can always find a better plane for the situations that this game presents.

ever seen greebo or akraven fly it? their K/D ratio in it would suggest that its far from "sterile"

its a great plane takes lots of damage has good ord load out, its not slow it turns well, dives great in my opinion its one of the better multi-role fighters when you get in the nitty gritty. If you like to run from fights its probably not your plane

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by Sincraft
great plane, takes some damage but just not enough speed to keep away from being ganged, even at a 'safe' distance.  It's sterile in most environments as you can always find a better plane for the situations that this game presents.

I out dueled a Spit IX one-on-one with an F6F a couple of weeks ago and I've beat Ki-84's and a host of others with one.  It's also one of the best bombing platforms in the plane-set.

Far from "sterile".  In fact it's near the top of the plane-set in most environments.

[Soulyss]

Originally posted by Sincraft
great plane, takes some damage but just not enough speed to keep away from being ganged, even at a 'safe' distance.  It's sterile in most environments as you can always find a better plane for the situations that this game presents.

The lack of speed makes it one of the best learning planes in the game.  It is quite survivable once you get a handle on the plane and ACM.  I learned more about dogfighting in a couple months flying the F6F than I learned in a couple years flying the P-51 because it forced me to fight my way out of bad situations rather than pointing the nose down and running.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Soulyss
The lack of speed makes it one of the best learning planes in the game.  It is quite survivable once you get a handle on the plane and ACM.  I learned more about dogfighting in a couple months flying the F6F than I learned in a couple years flying the P-51 because it forced me to fight my way out of bad situations rather than pointing the nose down and running.

It's got enough speed to out run any of the knife-fighters, but just enough speed to draw the late war monster away from the knife-fighters and then give them sum of dat "Grumman Iron Works" beat down.