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re: On this Date in History (June 26, 1942) Hellcat is Born
Posted on 6/26/21 at 6:02 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 6/26/21 at 6:02 pm to blueridgeTiger
Corsair fan myself.
Those gull wings.
Those gull wings.
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Posted on 6/26/21 at 6:18 pm to jamiegla1
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Might recognize someone in this pic that he flew with
Is that O’Hare?
Posted on 6/26/21 at 6:20 pm to blueridgeTiger
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The Hellcat was a favorite of US Navy air aces – men who had shot down five or more enemy aircraft. Lt. Alex Vraciu defeated 19 enemy planes in a Hellcat, six of them during one eight-minute dogfight. Lt. Bill Hardy earned his ace status in a single sortie in a Hellcat, when he destroyed five Japanese planes in 70 minutes on the 6th of April 1945.
To go back and put a gopro in those cockpits.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 6:57 pm to blueridgeTiger
It fascinates me how fast planes were developed then. I think there was a f22 video game in 1991 and the plane didn't fly until 2001.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 8:28 pm to jamiegla1
Thanks for the pic
Posted on 6/26/21 at 9:53 pm to jamiegla1
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jamiegla1
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:08 pm to jamiegla1
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My grandpa in the Pacific
You come from good stock. Congrats.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:12 pm to jamiegla1
That's a Wildcat, but impressive indeed.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:23 pm to Tigeralum2008
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Grumman was a GREAT company. They were known for building legendary naval aircraft.
It’s a shame they fell into mismanagemen
It wasn’t mismanagement as much as two things: the end of the Cold War, and Dick Cheney. No one quite knows why, but Cheney had a hardon for Grumman. Said they only existed because of government welfare. Cheney personally ordered the destruction of F-14’s when the navy retired them. It was supposedly so Iran couldn’t get them for parts, but I think that was just the public excuse.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:23 pm to blueridgeTiger
Side note...The first Blue Angels aircraft was the F6F-5 Hellcat flown in July 1946.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:11 pm to blueridgeTiger
My Dad was a navigator on a Helldiver, the 2 seater diver bomber version.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:28 am to crawlin king snake
The Helldiver was a Curtis product, the SB2C, aka the Son of a Bitch, Second Class.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:47 am to blueridgeTiger
The Japanese pilots thought they were Wildcats in first several encounters 
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:55 am to blueridgeTiger
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The first flight by a prototype took place on the 26th of June 1942, and by August 1943 is was being deployed in the Pacific
Looking at you Air Force Acquisitions(i.e. AFMC)
Self licking ice cream cone MIC gotta get paid somehow I guess
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 12:56 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 7:11 am to blueridgeTiger
They could get shot up to hell and back and still fly.
Former co-worker was one of those Pacific WWII pilots in a Hellcat. One helluva an engineer too.
Former co-worker was one of those Pacific WWII pilots in a Hellcat. One helluva an engineer too.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:29 am to DesScorp
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It was supposedly so Iran couldn’t get them for parts, but I think that was just the public excuse.
don't remember the exact time frame but it was circa then, there was some sort of detente(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty?) agreement to destroy so many a/c capable of nuclear delivery? it had to be done at a certain time and each side was notified so satellites could confirm
ETA: Tomcat wasn't wired for nuke delivery, just wondering if that may have been part of the agreement?
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 9:33 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:02 am to jamiegla1
America today would be unrecognizable to the men in these pictures. God damn we used to have the most bad arse civilization to ever exist on this planet and we let politicians, corporations, and outside bad actors dismantle it with nearly no resistance.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:07 am to Tigeralum2008
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Grumman was a GREAT company. They were known for building legendary naval aircraft.
“Gene, I’m wonderin’ what the Grumman guys think of this…”
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:23 am to salty1
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Chesty
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. "There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go."
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