Word: hellcat
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...Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street, they have but one thought: to get through and done with Chapel Hill, get on to Primary, Intermediate, and Operational Training Stations, toward the fine day when they lift a Hellcat or a Corsair off a carrier...
...Hellcat is strictly a war baby and the first fighter in combat service which was designed and built after Pearl Harbor. Shy, introversive "Roy" Grumman already had his engineering staff working on a bigger and better craft than the Wildcat when the war began, but they rubbed a lot of it out and started over again after they had talked to pilots who had met the Jap in combat...
...Hellcat (F6F) is a big fighter with a strong family resemblance to the Wildcat. It has the same square wingtips, a bumblebee body...
Report on Manners. One of the most mannerly planes yet, the Hellcat flies straight and true, which makes it a good gunnery platform, just about lands itself, which makes it ideal for carrier operation. But it also has the "hot" qualities a fighter needs: dazzling rate of climb, plenty of speed and lots of high-altitude performance...
...ship's most amazing characteristic is that it is also a nimble dogfighter. Said one of its Navy pilots: "The first Jap fighter that ties into this one is going to get the surprise of his life." The surprise is still to come. At Marcus, the Hellcat met no Zeros...