breeze400
Spagetti Pilot
WOW thats coming awesome Breeze!Its great your taking your time doing it right.I check out the above link and i think the F7F is an incredible plane and probably my new favorite twin engine.The fuselage reminds me of some jet i just cant think of but i,ll find.I cant believe i,ve never seen or heard of this incredible plane.
Thanks zapster! Well to tell you the truth, before about a year and a half ago or so I've never heard of an F7F Tigarcat before either! Lol I thought I was pretty knolageabull about WW2 planes too!
Quick history on the pane you might understand what happened to her. Grumand was
awarded a contract in 41 to develop the first twin engine fighter bomber plane to be flown off an aircraft carrier. By 43 the first planes started coming off the assembly lines. I
guess the development of the plane was a little slow. The Navy was developing a larger
carrier for these planes with the war and everything, well you know. The ordinal contract was for 500 planes. The end of the war came along and the order was cancelled. The jet
age was apron us. They had some problems with the tail hook so a very few were built with tail hooks. The bulk of these planes went to the Marines. Only a little over 100 were made. The plane saw some limited combat during the Korean war. Most were used in aerial reconises. The planes wre scraped in lue of faster jets! Although they flew at about 450 or so mph. Most of the survivors went to the California forest service and were used for fighting forest fires had air tankers. Up until very recently only 6 were left that were air worthy. Two more were put back into the air last summer for a total of 8 out of 100.
There are a few scattered around in museums. Not flyable. These planes are used in air races mostly. This is just an incredabull plane that never saw it's full potential has a
combat assault plane! You can look allot of this stuff up just about anywhere. Check out the Navel Air Museium web sight out. There is one there on display. And it was flown in there! It was one of the forest services plane.
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