And both beautiful airplanes. I read somewhere that the F3F's and early model F4F's required the pilots to retract and extended the landing gear manually by means of a hand crank. Some pilots newly transitioned to these aircraft from planes with fixed undercarriages would forget to crank down the landing gear on landing and accidentally belly land the airplanes. Seems old habits are hard to break.
@@gregmctevia5087 Yes, I've heard commentary at the airshows stating that the pilot has to hand crank the landing gear, but I don't think so with this particular aircraft. The gear retracts far to smoothly and quickly for it to have been hand cranked!
Beautiful little airplane. Thanks for sharing.
Great video 👍👏
Wonderful old flying machine in superb condition.
Don't forget it was the offspring of the Grumman F3F biplane fighter. They had similar landing gear and "barrel" shaped fuselage.
Yes, of course. Thank you for reminding me.👍🙂
And both beautiful airplanes. I read somewhere that the F3F's and early model F4F's required the pilots to retract and extended the landing gear manually by means of a hand crank. Some pilots newly transitioned to these aircraft from planes with fixed undercarriages would forget to crank down the landing gear on landing and accidentally belly land the airplanes. Seems old habits are hard to break.
@@gregmctevia5087 Yes, I've heard commentary at the airshows stating that the pilot has to hand crank the landing gear, but I don't think so with this particular aircraft. The gear retracts far to smoothly and quickly for it to have been hand cranked!
Great machine great preformens 👍