Recent content by egmccann

Greetings, salutations and heyhawaya! My name's Eric. I've been... oh, lifelong airplane nut and history nut. (Well, after the very young dinosaur stage passed - which, I suppose, is technically history as well. So likely at least 30 years.) Ran across the forum while doing a bit of a search...

One myth I'm surprised not to have seen mentioned: The Hellcat was designed after the recovery of the crashed A6M in Alaska (and/or specifically to beat it. )