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Grumman had been working on a successor to the F4F Wildcat since 1938, and the contract for the prototype XF6F-1 was signed on 30 June 1941. The aircraft was originally designed to use the Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone two-row, 14-cylinder radial engine of 1,700 hp (1,300 kW) (the same engine used with Grumman's then- new torpedo bomber under ...
The R-2800 also powered the Corsair's naval rival, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the US Army Air Forces' Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (which unusually, for single-engined aircraft, used a General Electric turbocharger), the twin-engine Martin B-26 Marauder and Douglas A-26 Invader, as well as the first purpose-built twin-engine radar-equipped night ...
Historically significant U.S. Navy aircraft recovered include the Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber Bureau Number 2106 which survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, [10] [11] the only Vought SB2U Vindicator Scout-Bomber known to exist, [12] [13] the Grumman F6F Hellcat Fighter Bureau Number 25910, [14] and an extremely rare early "Bird Cage" Vought F4U-1 Corsair.
This influenced the development of the Hellcat which was an improvement over the Grumman F4F Wildcat. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duncan, then an Ensign, [ 1 ] scored his first and second aerial victories in the Hellcat on 5 October 1943, the second being Japanese flying ace Warrant Officer Toshiyuki Sueda, who previously had downed nine American aircraft ...
Grumman F6F Hellcat (experimental designations XF6F-1 to XF6F-6), monoplane fighter; Other uses. The X Factor (British series 6), British TV series;
R-2600-14 - 1,700 hp (1,268 kW)- One of the engines which powered Grumman's prototype F6Fs, the XF6F-1 (the two-stage supercharged R-2600-10 was also tested in the XF6F-1). Grumman was not happy with the performance, which led to the 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine replacing the R-2600 on F6F production models. [7]
VF-1 F6F-3 launches from the hangar deck catapult of USS Yorktown in June 1943 VF-1 F6F-3 aboard USS Yorktown, June 1944. VF-1 operating the Grumman F6F Hellcat was embarked on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) on its shakedown cruise in the Caribbean in June 1943. VF-1 was transferred to Kaneohe Naval Air Station in August 1943. [2] VF-1 was assigned ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 8 (VF-8) is launched from the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), in 1944. VF-8 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 8 (CVG-8) aboard the Bunker Hill from March to October 1944.