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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guppy35 on April 18, 2007, 03:55:51 PM
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Not suggesting it for AH, but it sure is pretty
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s95/Wingmanphoto/_RFR1839-Print.jpg)
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Would have been interesting if it had seen use in WWII. It's design was a paradigm shift from previous attack aircraft.
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oooooooooooo i like :O
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Interesting counterpoint to the Lightning's twin boom layout. 4,200 hp vs the Lightning's 3,000. Similar size but 4,000 lbs heavier. Longer range, faster, 4 20mm and 4 .50cal. I wonder how turn performance compared? Of course they were several years apart so they weren't competitors.
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Interesting, it's the April airplane on my calendar, :)
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what kind is it ???
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F7F Tigercat.
Wasn't so much an "attacker". Not in the sense that the TBM was. It was a heavy fighter bomber, akin to the F6F and F4U lines, able to kill enemy fighters and still carry over 2000lbs of bombs to the target.
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Originally posted by Trukk
Would have been interesting if it had seen use in WWII. It's design was a paradigm shift from previous attack aircraft.
The F7F did see use in WW2, just not combat. It was operationally deployed to marine air units well before the end of the war.
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stateside :t
They never got to the front in time.
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Originally posted by Krusty
stateside :t
They never got to the front in time.
Guess you are fortunate that the German frontline was their backyard
in 44-5:D
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:huh
How so? Doesn't matter to me, I fly plenty of things. But setting up logistics and support for a radically new aircraft when the war is already nearing an end isn't going to be the most speedy of things, especially when your theater of ops is the Pacific!
It's just the way it was, we can't change that. :)
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If Nicole Ritchie were a plane....
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Originally posted by TinmanX
If Nicole Ritchie were a plane....
I'd crash.:D
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Originally posted by TinmanX
If Nicole Ritchie were a plane....
I,d trade her in for a Shania Twain plane!!!!!
(much nicer guns )
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I'll see those two and raise you a Gizelle!:aok
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Originally posted by Rino
Guess you are fortunate that the German frontline was their backyard
in 44-5:D
:rofl
oh that was a good one....
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Originally posted by Krusty
stateside :t
They never got to the front in time.
Several Marine F7F-2Ns were on Okinawa when Japan surrendered. On the day Japan surrendered, one F7F night fighter was scheduled to fly a night Combat Air Patrol off the south coast of Kyushu.
My regards,
Widewing
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Originally posted by Krusty
It's just the way it was, we can't change that. :)
Let's see what old Doc Brown has to say about this ;)
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Originally posted by 1Boner
I,d trade her in for a Shania Twain plane!!!!!
(much nicer guns )
trust me...
5 minutes in her presence and you'd retract that statement. I speak from personal experience.
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Originally posted by Guppy35
...it sure is pretty
It sure is, in a "fat bottomed girls" kind of way. From the nose to the waist she's pure sex appeal. Aft of that, well, she has something to hang on to. But, I'll bet there would be more parts that to be strewn about the AH landscape (assuming we would ever get it) than the 38's. :aok
Cheers,
asw
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QUOTE]Originally posted by Guppy35
Not suggesting it for AH, but it sure is pretty
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s95/Wingmanphoto/_RFR1839-Print.jpg) [/QUOTE]
FRON KRUSTY"F7F Tigercat.
Wasn't so much an "attacker". Not in the sense that the TBM was. It was a heavy fighter bomber, akin to the F6F and F4U lines, able to kill enemy fighters and still carry over 2000lbs of bombs to the target."
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krusty that is not the point guppy was gettin at .It is a very sexy aircraft. you are starting to get very old here.
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Originally posted by Krusty
F7F Tigercat.
Wasn't so much an "attacker". Not in the sense that the TBM was. It was a heavy fighter bomber, akin to the F6F and F4U lines, able to kill enemy fighters and still carry over 2000lbs of bombs to the target.
YOU mean it wasnt dog meat.
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Got a large format of that picture? I'd like to make it my wallpaper. 1280x960 or larger would be cool.
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Originally posted by Krusty
:huh
How so? Doesn't matter to me, I fly plenty of things. But setting up logistics and support for a radically new aircraft when the war is already nearing an end isn't going to be the most speedy of things, especially when your theater of ops is the Pacific!
It's just the way it was, we can't change that. :)
in any way was that the piont of this Thread?
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Originally posted by 1Boner
I,d trade her in for a Shania Twain plane!!!!!
(much nicer guns )
Meh, the point I was skirting around is that it's skinny, almost anorexic.
s'not funny when you have to explain it.
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Yeah, looks like a P-38 swallowed an A-20.
:aok
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Originally posted by TinmanX
Meh, the point I was skirting around is that it's skinny, almost anorexic.
s'not funny when you have to explain it.
Big motors,Small frame. =SEXY
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Corky Meyer, Grumman test pilot for the F7F program described the F7F as like flying two Bearcats bolted together.
The Navy's Chief test pilot called the F7F, "the best fighter I ever flew."
F7F video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kkilBoA3I&mode=related&search=)
My regards,
Widewing
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Jon, at least my responses were about the plane in question. You postd 3 times just in an attempt to belittle me.
P.S. Forget Shania! Bring on Bollock!
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Originally posted by Widewing
Corky Meyer, Grumman test pilot for the F7F program described the F7F as like flying two Bearcats bolted together.
The Navy's Chief test pilot called the F7F, "the best fighter I ever flew."
F7F video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kkilBoA3I&mode=related&search=)
My regards,
Widewing
If our company ever gets an IPO - I know where its goin. Plus 2 spare 2800's
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Not suggesting it for AH, but it sure is pretty
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s95/Wingmanphoto/_RFR1839-Print.jpg)
In action:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kkilBoA3I&NR=1
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Stan: "We need a way to make racing more dangerous so more people want too watch it."
J.P. : "How about making it go twice as fast...and get this...IN THE AIR!!"
Stan: " J.P. you beautiful genius! Get on it man! GET ON IT!!!"
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Originally posted by Widewing
Corky Meyer, Grumman test pilot for the F7F program described the F7F as like flying two Bearcats bolted together.
The Navy's Chief test pilot called the F7F, "the best fighter I ever flew."
F7F video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kkilBoA3I&mode=related&search=)
My regards,
Widewing
OMFG! that movie sounded so damn cool.F7F sounds like an absolute beast!Thanks for showing that.
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Originally posted by Widewing
Several Marine F7F-2Ns were on Okinawa when Japan surrendered. On the day Japan surrendered, one F7F night fighter was scheduled to fly a night Combat Air Patrol off the south coast of Kyushu.
My regards,
Widewing
That should make it an option, in my opinion
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Looks to me like a flower presser has had his way with it.
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Originally posted by Makoyouidiot
That should make it an option, in my opinion
That would mean that we get P-80s as well.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe lives on!
- oldman
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Originally posted by 1Boner
I,d trade her in for a Shania Twain plane!!!!!
(much nicer guns )
AMEN brother.... A - MEN!
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humm state side huh? What are those little red boxes around the last few bases.. :D
Anyway looks like you could rip the wings off that bad boy real fast.
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Originally posted by Widewing
Corky Meyer, Grumman test pilot for the F7F program described the F7F as like flying two Bearcats bolted together.
The Navy's Chief test pilot called the F7F, "the best fighter I ever flew."
F7F video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kkilBoA3I&mode=related&search=)
My regards,
Widewing
That thing looks like a big beast in the air..
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yea, a nice plane, but used in korea, not ww2, i'd rather see the black widow...
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Nice lookin plane, but what purpose does the rear seat serve.
navigator, radio man?
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Originally posted by doobs
Nice lookin plane, but what purpose does the rear seat serve.
navigator, radio man?
Radar operator....
My regards,
Widewing
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Originally posted by doobs
Nice lookin plane, but what purpose does the rear seat serve.
navigator, radio man?
Thats for the co-pilot, so he can do his " Paperwork " and make the drinks for the flight.