Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Grumman F-6F Hellcat



7 comments:

  1. Sorry-that is an F-6F Hellcat. Great picture though.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hey, learn something new every day! Thanks for the clarification.

      Delete
  2. They called Leroy's Place,"The Iron Works!!!" because his planes could take a beating and still make it back to fight again!!!!" 'Had the Honor and Privilege to have worked on his "F-14 Tomcats!!!" Those were "The Daze!!!" ....As the "Tomcat" would say.............
    "Anytime baby??,"
    Got Gunz .....OUTLAW???,
    ('Ya gonna' need two of em!!)
    III%,
    skybill-out

    ReplyDelete
  3. F6F-2 (no window behind the cockpit) 1943 "three color" PTO camo. 1944 markings. It was the best fighter in the PTO and a better dive bomber than the SB2C "helldiver" ----Ray

    ReplyDelete
  4. Late war f6f-5. Note no window behind cockpit . Tricky because it should be solid glossy blue, but instead has an earlier pattern of camo that should be on the f6f-3. Looks better that way in my opinion.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Didn't know they could go straight up.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Annon 12:23 AM. There were ONLY three versions of the F6F ever produced. The XF6F , F6F-1 and the -2 , ALL other "upgrades" were cancelled in 1945. The aircraft that replaced it was the 1947 F7F(only a handful produced) and F8F , which never saw anything like the production numbers of the F6F. By 1949 the "Banshee" and "Tigercat" (F9F) Jets were in the fleet pipeline. By 1950 the last "prop" fighter to serve in the fleet were the "high dash number" F4U's, of the USMC preforming CAS. The "bubble top" F6F-3, -4 , and -5 aircraft were on the drawing board in 1945 . but the war ended before the factory even started to tool up for the -3. There were two prototype -3 "bubble tops" built, but both were scraped in 1946 and no known photos exist.---Ray

    ReplyDelete