How fast was the F6f5?

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by ispar:


As far as speed... for some reason, the Hellcat seems to be slower at 15k than 10k. I haven't tried it higher than that, because I don't know if it has a supercharger or not. Still more than high enough for the dive o' doom!   With the Hellcat I think I've found my other favorite ride. What a plane!

It has a two-speed supercharger that like most others, switchs between 14 and 19k resulting in a large power loss until the second stage kicks in.

[Lephturn]

I agree Ispar, the Kitty is a sweet little bird.  It's like a furballin' version of my Jug.  

It's my #2 ride as well.  The most Jug-like plane I can fly from the CV. <G>

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[Ghosth]

Agree funked & gospel. First time I walked up to a real F4U my jaw dropped, & I stood there with a dazed expression for at least 5 min.

Man that thing is HUGE!

TBM I saw a year ago seemed incredibly big also!

Sim's just don't give you much of a sense of scale of the plane your flying.

[54Ed]

Hellcat is a great plane.  It is my favorite ride in 1.06.  I do fairly well, which surprises me because I don't really know the flight characteristics of the plane.  I just fly it.   Anyone care to summarize the flight characteristics so I'll know?

I'm surprised to hear it is as large as a P47.  It seems to handle far better than a jug.  It almost feels like a spit, but with less rate of turn and more roll rate.  With some speed, I feel comfortable mixing it up with just about anything.  Just don't try to outrun a pony or hog.

The guns are nice.  For some reason, I find the hellcat guns more lethal than the pony, even though they have the same configuration.  Is there some subtle design difference that would account for that?  Perhaps the hellcat is just a more stable firing platform because of it's size.

[Jimdandy]

Very good information F4UDOA. I remember the 1st time I realized how big the F6F was when I was watching some old movie and a support vehicle pulled up buy it. I figured you could hide a jeep in the the dang thing.
I would have also thought that ground timing was used for the tests. On the other had they mentioned that the top speeds of the planes were probably not reached due to the time restriction of the run to 2 minutes. Also the general content of this report would tell me that the test may have just been a quick comparison test to get some relative data and not a comprehensive study. They found out what they needed to know about the combat tactics needed to confront a 190 and called it good. I might add all those tactics work on here.   This tells me again that AH may not have it perfect but the relative performances of the planes as compared to each other on the game is close enough to work with.

[This message has been edited by Jimdandy (edited 01-11-2001).]

[LuckyDay]

 

Even more amazing was to see the 38 and the 63 flying formation with an F-15E. The Eagle is a frikking monster by comparison!!!

 

[bolillo_loco]

It is clearly seen in the picture posted above, that after a 5 mile drag race at 5,000 ft using full throttle on all planes, the P-38L is clearly ahead of the F-15 thus proving it was the fastest production plane during ww 2, hehehe

[Jigster]

If you look closely, the F-15 has speed brakes deployed, a modified reverse thruster at near full thottle (notice how there's no heat distorition behind the plane   ) and has the cockpit open with a very *large* bra trying to keep the plane level with the castrated air show planes