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Title: Can we have this
Post by: Blixen on September 26, 2005, 07:19:12 PM

To Run Down The Pesky LA pilots
(http://www.militaryairshows.net/legends03/img_7650.jpg)
Specifications (F7F-3):
    Engines: Two 2,100hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial piston engines
    Weight: Empty 16,270 lbs., Max Takeoff 25,720 lbs.
    Wing Span: 51ft. 6in.
    Length: 45ft. 4.5in.
    Height: 16ft. 7in.
    Performance:
        Maximum Speed at 22,200 ft: 435 mph
        Cruising Speed at 5,000 ft: 222 mph
        Initial Climb Rate: 4,500 feet per minute
        Ceiling: 40,700 ft.
        Range: 1,200 miles
    Armament:
        Four 20mm (0.79-inch) cannon in wing roots
        Four 12.7mm (0.5-inch) machine guns in nose
        One torpedo under fuselage
        2,000 lbs. of bombs (1,000 lbs. under each wing)

Title: Can we have this
Post by: lasersailor184 on September 26, 2005, 07:32:06 PM

I have no idea what that is.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Rino on September 26, 2005, 07:52:45 PM

Quote

Originally posted by lasersailor184
I have no idea what that is.

     It's probably the F7F-3 ;)

Title: Hey...if AHs nights ever last longer than 10 Minutes
Post by: Softail on September 26, 2005, 08:14:06 PM

I would want one of these....guns guns and more guns...plus Radar!

(http://www.military.cz/usa/air/war/fighter/p61/p61_infl.jpg)

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Softail on September 26, 2005, 08:21:22 PM

That first one is an F7F TigerCat.....


        My post is a P-61 Black Widow if y'all were wonderin.

Softail

Title: Can we have this
Post by: nirvana on September 27, 2005, 11:54:25 PM

F7F saw little if any action in WW2, sorry to tell you.  The p-61 on the other hand.....

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Blixen on September 28, 2005, 07:18:55 PM

nor did la7 i thought

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Hornet33 on September 28, 2005, 08:20:44 PM

Just watched a program last night on Discovery Channel about Russian WWII aircraft. The La7's were actually used in large numbers during the last year of the war.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: lasersailor184 on September 28, 2005, 08:38:17 PM

2 gun La7's saw large use.  I don't believe there to be more than 10 3 gun la7's.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: SMIDSY on September 28, 2005, 10:12:21 PM

my grandfather was a radar operator/navigator in a black widow durring the second world war.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Patches1 on September 28, 2005, 10:29:58 PM

I wish for the F4U-4B...used at the end of the War in limited numbers...and then flew into history during the Korean Conflict.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: nirvana on September 29, 2005, 06:01:29 PM

La7 was a disposable fighter if I recall, but it could have been a Yak.  Was of course the 2 engine La though.

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Softail on September 30, 2005, 03:42:19 PM

Smidsy....

          Your Grandfather was the Uber Geek of his day!  :-)

          His scope was vastly different than what they look at today.  Took a lot of skill to operate and to do it at night in the air in enemy territory damn!  Takes some major stones!  Mega Kudos to your Grandfather.

Softail

Title: Can we have this
Post by: Blixen on October 04, 2005, 07:27:09 PM

black widow is nice also but i think f7 is faster
plus with torp option would make good cv hunters