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F6F Performance. Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down 15 September 1943. Hellcat F.N. 322 (Double Wasp R-2800-10) Brief Performance trials. SUMMARY. Climb performance. Max. rate of climb in Main supercharger gear. = 2260 ft/min at 5400 feet. Max. rate of climb in Aux. Lowspeed supercharger gear.
Produkcja F6F Hellcat w zakładach Grummana w Bethpage w 1944 roku. Prototyp myśliwca XF6F-3 opracowany został w zakładach Grummana w Bethpage na Long Island, przez zespół konstruktorów którymi kierował Leroy Grumman. Prace trwały od początku 1938 do 1941 roku.
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.
24 gru 2008 · "Jan. '44-A modified F6F-3, including some of the features to be included in the later F6F-5 version, is flown at a speed of 410 mph at 21000 feet altitude." Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept. dated 1-49 F6F-5 with 4 x 0.5in. machine guns + 2 x 20mm cannon, bomb shackles & "T"-bracing plus faired wing bomb-racks & sway bracing in place.
2 dni temu · The Grumman F6F Hellcat, a carrier-based fighter aircraft, first took to the skies in 1942, marking the beginning of a new era in naval aviation. ... The maximum speed of the Hellcat is 376 mph at an altitude of 23,400 feet, with the F6F-5 variant achieving a top speed of 391 mph. The aircraft could climb to 10,000 feet in about 3.1 minutes ...
The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine boosted the Hellcats top speed to 375 mph (604 km/h), 29 mph (47 k./h) faster than the Zero. There are two versions of how the “Akutan Zero” affected the selection of engines for the Hellcat.
14 sty 2013 · The Grumman F6F Hellcat, essentially a larger and more powerful development of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, flew in its original XF6F-1 form on 26 June 1942, with a 1,700 hp Wright R-2600-10 Cyclone engine.
