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the lancaster kicks ass said:i'd put my money on the sea fury................
plan_D said:The Bearcat record was beaten by the EE Lightning actually. It didn't take any time at all to get going and it could climb vertically off the runway. The US record was probably beaten by a F-16, the world record by the Lightning.
The Grumman F8F Bearcat was the company's final piston engined fighter aircraft. Designed for the interceptor fighter role, the design team's aim was to create the smallest, lightest fighter that could fit around the Pratt Whitney Double Wasp engine (carried over from the F6F Hellcat) and the armament of four 20mm cannon. Compared to its predecessor, the Bearcat was 20% lighter, had a 30% better rate of climb, and was 50 mph (80 km/h) faster. In comparison with the Vought F4U Corsair, the Bearcat was marginally slower but was much more heavily armed {when fitted with cannon}, more manuverable and climbed faster. Many features of its design were inspired by a captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter that had been handed over to the Grumman facilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F8F_Bearcat
Grumman, however, favored a lighter and more maneuverable design, more like the German Focke Wulf 190 -- a captured example having been flown by Grumman test pilot Bob Hall in England. The resulting Grumman design, the XF8F-1, weighed only 7,017 pounds empty and was sometimes described as the smallest airframe built around the most powerful, fully developed engine, a real "hot-rod."
http://nasaui.ited.uidaho.edu/nasaspark/safety/f8f/f8fdev.html
the lancaster kicks ass said:i've seen a sea fury in flight and let me tell you it's no mellon...............
the lancaster kicks ass said:after seeing a sea fury in flight i'm still sticking by my guns...........
Erich said:hope this works and probably too small. The painting of the Geschwader stab/JG 301 before the white stipe on the prop. Great painting sitting above my PC work desk