F8F Bearcat - Warbird Wednesday Episode 26
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Man all these super props are badass, I wouldn't want to meet one on the streets lol.
the reason they made the bearcat smaller than the hellcat was time to altitude. They interviewed a bunch of battle hardened pilots and asked what they needed. Fightet pilots said they needed to get to altitude faster. So they made bearcat nearly 2000 lbs lighter and suped up the engine. Time to altitude is the reason for the smaller design. 10,000 ft in 94 seconds!!! Insane performance on this warbird
A walk-around would have been nice...
Love the Bearcat it was Neil Armstrong's favorite plane.
Top dog for sure !! 👀
Looks like someone has been to mardi gras, with that hat. The Bearcat is my favorite, and has been since I was a kid. Because I was able to see J.W. Fornoff and his son Corkey fly the Bearcats in my hometown airshow.
Wow where is your hometown ? I saw bill and jw corkey perform at naval air station corpus christi texas in 1970 . One year before bill died in his planecrash . I went to see them with my dad a light sport pilot 80 miles from home.
I worked with Corky Fornoff about 20 years ago and he told me this was his old Bearcat! Is this particular one formally his? He and his dad had an amazing Bearcat formation team until his dad's plane had a wing failure and was killed! Also, this was a former NON-MILITARY aircraft, it was used personally by Grumman executives for company travel!
I don't think so but I will check
I remember seeing the Bearcats flying in our local airshow here in Houma Louisiana. JW "Bill" Fornof and his son Corkey flew them if I remember correctly, one was N7700A and The other was N700C Bill died in a crash somewhere in new England, and Corkey went on to fly, in airshows and movies. Corkey flew the Bee Dee 5J in a James Bonds movie.
Make those guns flicker
Miss Bob.
I would like for you Fred to talk about Bob Pond and a few others including the head chair person, and yourself. What got you guys involved in the museum. A future video?
Sure - we can add that as a topic for our "Under the Cowling" segment
Actually I see some influence from Grumman's Long Island neighbor, Republic Aviation over in East Farmingdale NY. P-47 Thunderbolt.
Uh...your seeing ghosts.
If any plane in the United States inventory at the end of the war it was the F7F Tigercat
Isn't that a G-58 Bearcat?
Yes it is good eye - we don't get too deep on specific types in these segments - a very good eye...
How do you tell the difference?
Dad's has long been a standard in Root Beer.
Good video but your explanation for the problem with the Bearcat was confusing especially when you mentioned the different carriers. Not sure what the connection was. What was apparently an explanation for the folding wings ended up being the initial problem of the wingtips breaking off in high G turns. The immediate solution was to fit explosives to blow the wing tips off, but both wing tips had to blown off to avoid the issue of asymmetric control. Beautiful aircraft nonetheless.
Is it true that the F8F, outperformed all other war planes at the time, including the Corsair and theP51?
Yes and no, it would out climb and had close to the same level flight speed. It didn't have the range or armament. The Bearcat was a short range sprinter, it was built to launch off a carrier take air superiority and land on the carrier again. WWII ended before the Bearcat reached the front lines.
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE HELLCAT BUT SHOWED A WILDCAT, WOOPS.!!
huh?
@@johnklatt3522 yes its a Hellcat - you can see why the Japanese mistook the hellcat with the wildcat early in their introduction...
@@johnklatt3522 no worries - I watch the page comments as we do make mistakes from time to time... Enjoy the series...
There are plenty of visual cues, despite the dark picture --> 4:36 that a Hellcat and Bearcat are pictured.
who the f&+k ıs Greg...?