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...with the wings of angels, a combat aircraft is no demonstrable good until it has met and passed the final test of battle. Last week the U.S. had a glow ing report on the first combat performance of its newest fighter plane, the Navy's Grumman Hellcat (F6F). It also got a well-documented secondary report on the Vought Corsair (F4U), already one of the hottest things in the Pacific...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
...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...Hellcat superseded...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...