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The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero , it was the United States Navy 's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War .
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 F3F-2, BuNo 0976, restored and displayed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, NAS Pensacola, Florida, after 50 years in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast. 30 August A Curtiss YP-37 , 38–476 , of the 22d Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) , 36th Pursuit Group , Langley Field , Virginia, piloted by Homer M. Truitt, is ...
Fantasy of Flight is an aviation museum in Polk City, Florida.. It opened in November 1995, to house Kermit Weeks' collection of aircraft that, until Hurricane Andrew damaged many in 1992, were housed at the Weeks Air Museum in Tamiami, Florida, On April 6, 2014, it closed to the public, aside from private events and on January 30, 2015, it opened a scaled-down museum displaying a small ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1) in flight over California (USA), in early 1943. VF-1 was redesignated VF-5 in July 1943. VF-1 was redesignated VF-5 in July 1943.
A Fleet Air Arm Grumman Hellcat. It formed part of the 5th Naval Fighter Wing, along with 1839 Naval Air Squadron, and was initially equipped with ten Grumman Hellcat, an American carrier-based fighter aircraft. [2] These were the F6F-3 variant, designated Hellcat F. Mk. I by the Fleet Air Arm. [4]
Black Diamond was a town in the Calgary Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada within the Town of Diamond Valley. It is at the intersection of Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail) and Highway 7. Its first post office opened in 1907. [6] Black Diamond was so named because of coal deposits near the original town site. [7] Little oil or gas remains.
Wardair Canada was a privately run Canadian airline, founded by Max Ward in 1952 under the name Wardair Ltd, before formally changing its name to "Wardair Canada" in 1976. The airline was acquired by and merged into Canadian Airlines in 1989.