Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat & F6F-5 Hellcat - Living Warbirds: Steel Warriors

[the82spartans]

would love to them strafe the UN building

lol

[merilldu76]

l'un des meilleurs avions de la seconde guerre mondial avec un avion de la guerre de corée

[TheFunkhouser]

Hard on material

[KJOSCOT]

Looks like an American answer to the FW190. Striking resemblance

[Televisionsucksyou]

Great vid. Thanks for uploading WITHOUT this absolutely unneeded backgroundmusik. Love the sound of this engines!

[mgwilliams1000]

Grumman Iron Works. Widcat to Tomcat. As a retired Navy Aviation mechanic I will miss them all. To my friends in VF-31 who serviced and flew the last combat missions in the F-14..... Think about you always.

[OTULP62]

nice fotage buuuuuuttt your a douche bag with the sound ass ......ass hole!

[drod103164]

did the bearcat see any action in WWII?

[roadstarman58]

@drod103164 No. They served in between WWII and Korea with the U.S. Navy. The French were the only ones to use them in combat in French Indochina and Algeria.

[Iamtherealjerkfreak]

lets rock the cats!!!

[palkian90]

hellcats' engines sound amazing

[PSNgregiskool]

The Hellcat is powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 2000 HP engines. the whistle you hear when it's flying by is the sound of the intake below the engine, on the chin of the aircraft. It had a 16-1 kill ratio(or a 19-2) and was nicknamed the Zero Killer. It was armed with six 0.50 cal M2 Browning machine guns on most 5's and all 3's. correct me if I am wrong.

[dog123903]

@PSNgregiskool The almighty "double wasp!"  YES!!!

[KGero478]

@PSNgregiskool In fact the -5 could carry a mixed armament of x4 .50 cal machine guns and x2 M3 20mm cannons.. Nightfighters carried this armament in combat, their dayfighting counterparts could yet never did.

[adamcrookedsmile]

I thought there were no airworthy Hellcats left, glad to see I was wrong.

[PSNgregiskool]

@adamcrookedsmile Oh yeah, there's a bunch. But not much, as compared to 12,000 back in the day.

[NYCadet273]

holy crap! I think that's the same Hellcat that's in my video! seriously!

[jjjazzycraig]

to all those "offended" by the confederate air force, you can kiss my purple heart wear'n ass...i hope you pc maggots die a horrid death.

[BKrystall]

F6F and F8F Grumman Cats with 2000 horsepower pratt & whitney engines. Both can fly close to 400 mph. Both the Hellcat and Bearcat were faster than the F4F Wildcat.

[bfahren]

My granny IS faster than the Wildcat. And she is dead.

[stealthbomberjacket]

she is one beautiful bear cat with new

radial Engine

[Santoslhelpa]

the bearcat is a beauty. too bad she came too late.

the f4u4 wiht 4 blades has also something doesnt she?

[numatubeable]

i flew bearcat 1952, F4U-7 1953 til 1964, same engines but bear 5000pds lighter. Both were marvellous.

[justforever96]

F4U-7? Isn't F4 a Wildcat? They didn't still fly those in '53, did they? I think that the Hellcat is a better looking plane than the Bearcat, in most way. But I like 'em both. Go Ironworks! Did they call Grumman the "Ironworks" in WWII, or was that later on?

[numatubeable]

F4U-7 (Corsair)was built for french navy, nothing to do with F4F Wildcat! F8F Bearcats were flown 1954 or so by french air force. F6F Hellcat was with french navy together with Corsairs (F4U-7 and AU-1 ). AU-1 was meant for lowlevel attack, armour instead of supercharger.

[pramboy09]

@numatubeable did you fly the cosair? Our air force (RNZAF) used them in the pacific from 1943, beautiful aircraft. Did you ever get to fly the hellcat and how much different in flying characteristics are they?

[golas80]

Two of fifth US BIG BROTHERS :D

[golas80]

F-4U-Corsair,

F-6- Hellcat,

F-8- Bearcat,

P-38- Lighting,

P-51- Mustang

[golas80]

I forgot about P-47 Thunderbolt.

So should be six.

[jwolf2002]

P-39 cobra

P-63 kingcobra

P-40 hawk

[pramboy74]

what about the p-40? That took the brunt of the action first .

[spitfireMK22]

i think the hellcat is the p51 of the pacific

[KilleTheHedgehog8492]

@spitfireMK22

Actualy the Hellcat was desiged off the base of the P-47 nut dosent haver the looks but it has the amor of it

[spitfireMK22]

@KilleTheHedgehog8492 well actually i never said the hellcat was based on the p51 i just said that it was the pacific war equivilent and besides that the Hellcat was designed around the P47 engine and was made of the specs of a captured Zero. PS: please learn a bit of history before you spit shit out that not true u cumdumpster.

[4thstooge]

@spitfireMK22 The P51 was the P51of the Pacific (it was used there as well as in Europe)

[BikerRussell]

@spitfireMK22 Yup! -Or the Dora over Berlin.

[KGero478]

@spitfireMK22 Or the FW-190 of the Pacific.

[saintrobbie375]

@spitfireMK22 They didn't call the Hellcat the "Ace Maker" for nothing!

[Dogedart67]

Is this in camarillo,Ca.?

[ovationpdh]

This is how a warbird video should be made. No music the background, just the sound of those big Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines!

[sergeant137]

@ovationpdh AGREED!

[PSNgregiskool]

@ovationpdh OORAH

[BombaBVI]

@ovationpdh

Couldn't agree more.

[sakoshooter48]

@ovationpdh HERE HERE!

[16Echo101stID]

@ovationpdh You're right. Screw the background music. The sound of the engines is a rarely heard sound anymore.