The F6F Hellcat

[Beefcake]

Hey HiTech Pyro, is the Hellcat on the list? heheheh I love that plane. Oh well, I was just wondering.

The Beefster

[Mox]

Beef,  Did you give up on being a full time bomber pilot?  I rarely fly them anymore myself.

I'm hoping the new version will bring back the strat to the game.

Mox
The Wrecking Crew

[skernsk]

Put in my vote for the Hellcat

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Skernsk

[daddog]

Hellcat should only enter along side the A6M5.  



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332nd Flying Mongrels
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[popeye]

Bring on the Cat!  

popeye

[nonoht]

stop with american planes....
pfffff...
what about fairey battle t-68 ?
Fokker TV ?
Fokker G1 ?
Northrop 8A-3N ?
Stuka ?

   

GC III/2 "Alsace"

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[Tern]

 

Originally posted by nonoht:
stop with american planes....
pfffff...
what about fairey battle t-68 ?
Fokker TV ?
Fokker G1 ?
Northrop 8A-3N ?
Stuka ?

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Yeah, let's have some more cannon armed planes.    What am I saying!?  


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[Pongo]

The american fighters are hardly over represented. They are by any measure some of the most signifigant planes of the war, and how and why they were successfull is far more interesting to me then the fairly battle.
Hellcat! Hellcat! Hellcat!...
and its moving airstrip too please....
and the Zero....


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Pongo
The Wrecking Crew

[Sundog]

I agree. I love the Hellcat! Hopefully HTC will add the Zero and the Hellcat at the same time  . BTW, Historic Wings website has Hellcat wallpaper for this months calender.
 www.historicwings.com


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[eye]

I hope they add some british planes first.Some japenese too to even out the country sets. When they add a f6 i hope i get my 2 20 mm cannon not just 6 50's. The f6 is just the antidote to the spit fever we have here. A f6 + a 38 that can turn with flaps makes life alot tougher on a spit dweeb like myself.

[air_spro]

Thanks Sundog , I got the wallpaper .

Hellcat has always been my favorite .

Did you know that in that plane there was more ace's made than any other in WW2 ?


 

[Hristo]

 

Originally posted by air_spro:

Did you know that in that plane there was more ace's made than any other in WW2 ?


 

By 5 victories criteria ? How many aces ?

I believe 109s shot more planes than any other plane, so I guess 109s had more aces than Hellcat.

[air_spro]

The book was  "Aircraft of World War 11"

A visual encyclopedia
By Michael Sharpe , Jerry Scutts , and Dan March

Here's the quote
 "At least 306 pilots achieved ace status while flying F6F's with US Navy squadrons during the war , a larger figure than for any other air_craft type. And the Hellcat obtained a better kill-to-loss ration of 19:1- a figure unrivalled by any other type --- for its Navy and Marine pilots were credited with 5,156 victories for hte loss of just 270 F6F's."

Now maybe they were talking about just for the US Navy or just US in all . I really didn't think of that when I wrote the first post. It really doesn't say that though .

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[Pongo]

Toliver says there are over 5000 LW aces.
How many do you think flew the 109...probably more than 300

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Pongo
The Wrecking Crew

[skippy]

Ohhh  yeah..  f6f or f4  they look 2 kool.  Gots my vote (worth 2cents if you already have 1) !