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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Puck on September 01, 2010, 02:11:54 PM
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How much difference was there between the F4F Wildcat and the FM1 Housecat? The FM2 is lighter/faster/better, but I can't seem to find any real information on the FM1.
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FM-1 was the GM produced variant that was identical to the F4F-4 except it had the number of guns reduced to 4 and wing racks for two 250lb bombs or six rockets. Production later switched to the improved FM-2 variant that was optimized to be used on the escort CVs.
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As Ack-Ack said: The FM-1 is essentially an F4F-4 with the outer pair of guns removed.
The FM-2 is I believe the F4F-8.
Whenever HTC gets around to remodeling the Wildcats I hope they make a separate F4F-3. Its performance was significantly different, and not adequately represented just by removing the F4F-4s outer guns as is currently the case (the F4F-3 was lighter, climbed better, marginally faster, and had longer range). Our 4-gun F4F-4 is basically an FM-1, just without the rocket provisions.
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I thought the FM2 had a more powerful engine and a lengthened Vert stab to deal with the increased yaw from the more powerful engine?
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I thought the FM2 had a more powerful engine and a lengthened Vert stab to deal with the increased yaw from the more powerful engine?
Yep.
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I thought the FM2 had a more powerful engine and a lengthened Vert stab to deal with the increased yaw from the more powerful engine?
The FM-1 is essentially an F4F-4...
FM-1 was the GM produced variant that was identical to the F4F-4....
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The FM-1 and FM-2 were two different aircraft. The OP was asking about the former.
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The FM-1 and FM-2 were two different aircraft. The OP was asking about the former.
Isn't that what I said? My second post was answering Yeager's question.
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