Word: hellcats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hellcat (Grumman F6F). The Hellcat, newest Navy fighter, is also a big super-powered pursuit aircraft. Amazingly "honest"-i.e., untricky-it is ideally adapted to carrier work. Yet it is in the 400-m.p.h. class, has a dazzling rate of climb, is probably the most nimble big fighter in U.S. service. Like other U.S. fighters it can carry bombs, a torpedo, or a belly tank...
...Hellcat superseded...
...foregoing are powered with liquid-cooled (Rolls-Royce and Allison) engines of substantially less than 2,000 h.p. Makers of the air-cooled engines (Wright and Pratt & Whitney) which drive U.S. bombers and transports, also produce fighter engines. Except for the new Grumman Hellcat, whose Pratt & Whitney engine is still secret as to power, the following types are driven by air-cooled Pratt & Whitney 2,000s...
...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...
...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...