FHC Hellcat First Flight

This sound is amazing - They added this Skin in warthunder... if only the engine sounded like that and the 50 cal API would do as much damage as the german armaments

wings of fury <3 :D

shotgun shell to start it

This video brought tears of joy to my eyes...

You did a great job of restoring this beauty. Easily my favorite U.S. Navy fighter of all times. Congrats on a great job!

Wonder why Grumman didn't put a four bladed prop on the F6F, like just about every other plane with the R2800 had?

Very nice video!!! It need a cockpit camera. Thanks.

Very cool! Thanks!

Does the ''-5N'' stand for Night-Fighter? I believe Butch O'Hare was killed flying an early F6F-N Night Fighter,flying off the ''Big-E''(Enterprise) during WW-2.

if my ears hurt by hearing this video imagine in real life

My Dad flew these in the Pacific, he said they were a very stable gun platform. Grumman Ironworks! He flew them off small aircraft carriers, not the big ones, bobbing corks on the water, not easy to put a plane down on one of those. In my family the Bombs on Japan were a good thing, not something to apologize for as Obama just did.

To go to Japan this close to Memorial Day was a disgrace! Those people were sadistic butchers and deserved all they got in return.

Dodge Challenger hellcat. This plane is fucking great, I love it!

That's the American muscle baby

Damn thats a beautiful sound....gorgeous plane.

This is a magnificent plane! I love watching historic aircraft fly and hearing their engines!

I Love The Jpanaese Zeros

When they fly overhead why do they emit a whistle like sound? Was that an intentional design to make them sound more menacing? More cool sounding?? 😊😊❤️❤️

An aircraft is like a woman. she needs flaws to be truly beautiful. That is why the Bearcat is not as popular. It is too beautiful. It is perfect. The Hellcat and the Corsair, on the other hand, are flawed and loved.

Not a popular aircraft with Japanese pilots!

後方視界悪そうなのに；弾丸当たっても簡単に落ちないんだろうな～

hmm I thought the wings where hydraulic

Love that cantankerous R-2800!😀

Man, if I'm taking battle damage this is the air frame for me...that Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp with the Iron Works fuselage...shoot a couple of cylinders out and she still brings you home...

Is this the plane that was recovered from Lake Michigan?

I can only imagine the astonishment of the Japanese pilots when these planes first flew in combat, thinking they were an F4F and would be an easy kill and learning the hard way, they weren't.

Would I be wrong if I called This Plane the zeros Bane

The sword of the Pacific

Sounds like a might cat!

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Zero pilots got a rude awakening when the Hellcat showed up. No doubt, many of them thought they were Wildcats and that the pilots were green newbies who didn't know any better than to follow them up into a steep climb. But it didn't end well for the Zero pilots. Instead lining up an easy kill on a stalled Wildcat fluttering like a duck, the last thing they saw before they were vaporized was the flash of the Hellcat's 50 cal's, courtesy of its 2,000 HP double wasp engine.

very nice!

Beautiful plane.

There's nothing "automatic" on those old workhorses, spark advance, engine cooling all has to be done by the pilot. You would have to be pretty good to fly one of these bad boys!

My Dad was a plank owner on the Randolph. The chosen livery made my day!!

We lost Dad after a full rich life at 95
years-old last May.  His spirit and
kindness and sacrifice is responsible for the best parts of me.  As for me, well, I’ll go to my final reward
hoping that my children and grandchildren will know that when they spot those
white tail stripes in some old movie or news reel, that that was the Randolph, CV-15,
a proud fleet carrier and “Papa Fred’s” ship. 
I pray that Dad’s legacy and that of thousands like him, will live on in
memory for generations to come.

I love the looks of the F6F Hellcat! Those lines, the certain viewing angles, ranks amongst the very top with me. Tell Steve H. we thank him for flying these planes, and that many of us believe the Hellcat should always be "counted amongst the more Glamorous and Nostalgic Fighters of the 1940's"!

主翼を出来るだけコンパクトに折り畳む為に、主脚は前から後ろに90度ひねりながら収納という複雑な作動をしているのですね。主脚の作動はP-40ウォー･ホークも同じですね。

主翼の展張、畳んだ面積が大きいので迫力がありますね。

The Hellcat was just the right fighter at just the right time for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. While the F4U Corsair was way faster, it took some time for the Navy to sort out some of its issues for carrier op's. The F6F was PERFECT for carrier op's. Faster than the Wildcat but much easier to handle than the F4U, it was well suited to green rookie pilots. It had a shorter nose than the F4U with a slight slope giving the pilot far better visibility and also had a much slower stall speed than the Corsair. Those two factors alone made it way easier to manage for carrier landings than the F4U. It was more than a match for the much vaunted A6M Zero as reflected in its kill ratio and why it is commony called the "Zero Killer". Near the end of the war, the F4U came into its own for carrier op's because by then the Navy had figured out how to train pilots to manage its quirky issues for carrier landings. By then, the Corsair's superior speed and rate of climb made it a better option than the F6F to extend the zone of protection around the fleet from the kamakaze threat.

Sweet music to my ears

Best fighter ever. Protection around the pilot titanium shield.

Badass..the zero killer.

Really great to see this Hellcat fly. Beautiful!

Beautiful music to my ears...

Misfireing wasn`t it ?

violence like the spitfire and mustang hellcat sounds diff

Cartridge start!

Powerful rotary engine.

A Zero's worst nightmare.

it's the one that says bad mutha fckah

god damn that is some good ole fashioned american horsepower