Flight of the 'Cats' - Tigercat, Bearcat, Hellcat, Wildcat Formation! - EAA AIrVenture Oshkosh 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- The Grumman Cats take flight together during the Friday airshow at EAA AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The formation brings together four incredibly rare Navy warbirds - the F7F Tigercat "Here Kitty Kitty", the F8F Bearcat "Da Chrome Cat", the F6F Hellcat "Death N' Destruction", and the only flying F4F-3 Wildcat. After the formation passes, stick around for solo flybys and short aerobatic routines by the Tigercat and Bearcat!
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The Hellcat is my favorite plane. ❤19 to 1 kill ratio . Greatest of all time!
Fun fact, that Wildcat is the only one flying with a P&W 1830 in the nose.
I am shocked to see a wildcat. I thought the Japanese shot them all down.
@@SteveSmith-eb6ze The Wildcat was an excellent fighter, why would all of them get shot down?
Thanks for the video! My dad was a Marine Corps pilot, and few F6F, and F7F, along with several other planes between the end of WWII and the Korean war. It is nice to see them in action!
It would bring a tear to his eyes if he saw these planes.
That F7F is just beautiful, I’ve seen one in person before it’s amazing
Great collection of Cats including my favorite the scrappy little Wildcat. Don't know how many airworthy examples of this iconic warbird are in existence but the one you included in your presentation must be one of very few. Gratitude and congrats to the group of dedicated preservationists who keep her flying. Our country owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to that tough little customer and all of the men who flew her and maintained her under very difficult circumstances during her service in WWII. Outstanding piece.
agreed, its the only flying one and its a beauty!
i love gear retraction in a wildcat. lol again
is it planes of fame usa/?
@@gdude3957 Years ago I read a piece on the early model Wildcats that didn't have an automatic, electrical or hydraulic driven system to retract and extend the landing gear. The pilot had to raise and lower the gear by means of a manual cranking system in the cockpit. Thus some pilots transitioning from older designs with fixed landing gear would sometimes forget to crank the gear down before landing and accidentally belly land the airplane. I'm not sure if the story is true, or if the incidents were widespread but it seems plausible. It could be my memory is faulty and the subject of the article was the F3F which was the all metal biplane fighter design that the Wildcat was based on and also had a nose mounted landing gear. It may have had the manually operated landing gear system.
@@gregmctevia5087 Nope it’s true the early wildcats had to be cranked to raise or lower the gear. Think it was something like 28 times before the gear was fully raised? Fair to say you wouldn’t get bored right after takeoff.
The Tigercat was a sight to see! Got one really good shot of it through the whole show
Greatest group of cats in the world. Thank you.
I was at EAA 2022 The flight of the cats were epic! :)
As was I. Awesome is an overworked adjective but not in this case.
lucky dog you ....
Lovely Grumman Birds! The Tomcat would have been one hell of an addition, if it was still active!
I remember in the early '90s at NAS Miramar, this flight of the cats included a F-14 in the "missing man" slot, this is a great produced video in sound too!
@@delten-eleven1910 💯👌
recips only no suckers
I love the sounds of the radial engines sounds like a big block with big cam
Great video, always in focus, excellent framing and wonderful sound.
Everyone keeps asking for the Tomcat and the other jet Cats. This was a piston engined Cat flight.
you get it. i do too. dummies dont
I don't think any jet cats are flying anymore, there was a Panther Flying, but I think she was grounded, and no tomcats or tigers either.
I was at an airshow in Batavia NY in the 90s and saw the same thing,but with an f14 joining in before it did its own demo .priceless
Just the sounds alone were incredible! Hats off to all the hours of maintenance and body work to make these cats purrrr 🤙
All that is needed is the Panther, Cougar and Tomcat. But this was still so beautiful to see.
And let us not forget the F 11 Tiger.
@@gregmctevia5087 Can never forget the tiger.
@@gregmctevia5087 and the f5 tiger
@@thedishonoredamerican129 One could be forgiven for overlooking the Tiger. She didn't have a very long service life, but did have the distinction of serving briefly with the Blue Angels. That alone makes her noteworthy One would suppose.
@@Sticknub Excellent point. However the F 5 Tiger ll was built by Northrop Aircraft as an independently financed light twin engine fighter to be marketed primarily to export customers, although the USAF did buy a few. As the F 5 Tiger was not built by Gruman Aircraft for the USN as a carrier based fighter, she really can't be included in the iconic "Cat" series of Navy fighters built by Gruman. Great catch though. I forgot the Northrop built a fighter named Tiger as well.
My new favorite video. I’m getting a Tigercat high speed pass sound as my ringtone. And I’m a P-51 guy. 😳😱
the Fab 4. deadly.
thanks Grumman. thanks for sharing!
When I was young in the '90s, my family would attend the "High on Kalamazoo" Airshow in Michigan every year; and *The Flight of the Grumman Cats* was always a feature of the show with that very Tigercat in the lead of the group. Thanks for bringing back some very happy memories.
Thanks for being there, to show us this impressive family of cats. Great shots. Greets from germany. :)
Thanks for watching!
That Bearcat would have ate the Zero alive.
Gotta luv Cats with big round motors
The tigercat , like the Beaufighter , two engines followed by a pilot. these are all beautiful aircraft.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!! The Legendary Grumman Cats!!!!!!!!
It warms the soul to hear the pounding of those Cats. If only "Snort" could be there with his Cat.
Whistle, roar and cackle...I say the Hellcat sounds the best.
The F6F, like the Corsair, makes a very distinctive sound.
Absolutely love @airshowstuffvideos always amazing quality and phenomenal panning keeping subject centred
This is fantastic! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen these planes fly. Thank you for the video.
Beautiful absolutely beautiful!
What a sweet sound!
Great footage! The icing on the cake would be an F-14 with them!
I was at the Kalamazoo, MI air show about 20+ years ago and saw these four with the F-14 as well. Grumman had a craft in the air to photograph all of the cats together. It was very cool!
no way recips rule
@@gdude3957 I agree.
beautiful...and the camera work is perfect.
Uma pena o F 14 Tomcat não fazer mais parte desse Show!! Uma pena
Absolutely fantastic 👏 thankyou, great to see the "cats" all together, not much chance here in the UK. Keep em coming!
Absolutely a beautiful display of the cats ,I truly enjoyed your video thankyou for sharing
Missing the newest cat . It would of been nice to see the F-14 Tomcat with the rest of the Grumman cats. My favorite cat, retired too soon.
Beautiful ❤️
Where’s the F14 tomcat? 😂😂
😂😂😐😞
And the F9F Panther
@@terryboyer1342 I know the F14 is from iran
wit all da udder suckers
Awesome, thanks 😊
Best part of my day!
Wildcat o melhor!!!!
The memories of me being a kid in the Field with my Dad and uncle at Flying Legends Duxford in Mid 90s with the The Fighter Collections Tigercat Bearcat Hellcat Wildcat virtually doing the same thing all Thay would do a few flypasts down Low across the Airfield then do there solo displays
Fantastic footage! Can I ask what camera do you use please? Quality is excellent!
We use Sony AX-53s. Thanks for watching!
Would have been nice to have an F-14 with this "Flight of the Cats"...
Великолепная четвёрка!
FABULOUS!
Big cats of the sky ☁
Ya I agree, but you left out F11F Tiger.
Fantastic footage. Thank you..
That settles it I’m trading my RV6 in on a. tigercat!
Everybody wants an F-14 Tomcat in this line up. That would be cool, but in order of preference I would prefer to see an F9F-5 Panther, F9F-6 Cougar and an F-11 Tiger......THEN an F-14.
Fantastic footage! 🤩🤩🤩
This is what I was super excited for one of the days I went but my mom didn’t want to walk along the runway so we went to get on a bus thing and I missed the whole thing 😢
Hello. Awesome planes! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Damn i really wanted to see this part of the show but i just missed it😭
Magnifique !!
Wow!
Grumman 👍all that’s missing is the Tomcat
site 2 veteran says no recips except u-2
adp?
Check out starting at 7:21 to 7:25. Middle top, there is a white dot that is decending. Then it makes a 90 right turn and disappears. Play it back at the slowest speed.
o a conspiracy. ufo after warbirds.. lol
@@gdude3957 I didn’t say it was a UFO 🤣. 👽🛸
Oh yes, probably a reflection of the sun in the lens or something
Delicious advocat 60
My mind always thinks of those brave pilots rising up in Wildcats to meet incoming waves of Japanese planes at Guadalcanal. Epic battle.
Bring Tom!
Very good
❤❤❤❤
A Grumman Cats show without a Tomcat is too sad.
We are missing the f14 tomcat😂
Great video. Thank you for using appropriate shutter speeds when filming. The aliased “standstill” props are only too common in many videos and they really detract from the end result.
i was blessed to work on a bearcat after viet nam service was over. aerosport aviation near p o fame museum. Mr. sepestein and mr. airston lol
The bearcat f8f can still compete with a jet
Which plane do you like the most in this video?
The Hellcat. In some important ,ways the largest single seat fighter of WWII. From it's best angles, the good looks of it are iconic.
Clever part 78
Light missile for radius selfdefend
Brave duck 26
Crazy Engineer 68
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Fast designer 10
Wondering man 05
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the only cats i am not allergic too.
Dirty snow 06
Calm door 83
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Busy friend 71
lntelligente teacher 86
Can't stand the fake smoke....
Automatic down-vote for any video that is interrupted by advertising.
Espially the Bear- , and the Tigercat are sounding amazing.....!!!!!