Grumman F8F Bearcat Engine Start R2800

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Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2010

F8F Bearcat Startup, Pratt & Whitney R2800 radial. Great backfire at 00.46, much better in person. I was a ways away, and zoomed in while shooting, didnt get the full backfire effect...
Taken at Historic Flight Center Paine Field, Everett Wa

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  • Radials sound so sexy!

  • @4gkidsplusBabs They made them right around the corner from my Grandmothers house on Long Island.

  • @mrceebees14 Republic made the P 47 Grumman just about only made planes for the Navy.  P 47s altough a good plane are Air force

  • That's not a backfire at :46, it's afterfiring. An actual backfire is not a good thing on these big old recips. Fine engine, the 2800. Still in commercial service here and there after all these years.

  • yes, I agree, but there`s another reason. Have you ever seen wrenched Propeller parts flying away? These parts are like bullets and that is the reason staying far away from a rotating prop.

    Regards

    Andre

  • @turbocompound Depth of field in photog is every thing... IMHO it just appears he is close...kinda like the photos of someone pushing the leaning tower of pizza back up...its all how the lens sees it...been a photog for more years than I would like to admit! All is not what it seems :-)

  • Dam. Grumman made some fugly lookin airplanes

  • it would be a real good feeling, if prop blades hit you, some people need that!!!!

    Regards

    Andre

  • I would ask the same thing about the dummy standing at the propeller plane. Looks obviously stupid. Inhaled too much 130 octane fumes ? I used to handprop Piper Cubs in my younger days and i would never ever stand there.

  • @brettt777 it def would out fly the p-51 just as the xiv spitfire would have done the same, just remember the bearcat was developed right at the end of piston engine aircraft development and the mustang was in the middle. i always wondered what the performance of the mustang would have been if it had a RR griffon engine installed.

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