The Flying Heritage paired its Japanese Zero with its newly-restored Grumman F6F Hellcat. The Hellcat is now the fifth remaining flyable Hellcat in the world.
Hats off to your Dad. My dad was a plane captain (flight deck crew) on the USS Bennington. He worked on Curtis Helldivers, but had nothing but praise for what he called "the barrel-chested fighter"
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these old warbirds and their Pratt & Whitney snarl and howl! They're just the way a 'Cat should sound. Woe to the unlucky aviator who fell into their gun sights.
Pero no se han ametrallado y eso ¿porqué? Donde está el mérito? Aquí, lo único que se ve es una exhibición obsoleta de dos aeroplanos de hélice y nada más. Si no se han derribado no se donde está el mérito. La próxima vez que se disparen el uno al otro ya que eso es lo que han hecho toda la vida los Yankees, matarse los unos contra los otros y aquí nada de eso es lo que he visto. La próxima vez quiero ver sangre sino no contéis conmigo ¿de acuerdo? 😅 😁 🤣))
The hellcat is such an underrated fighter. You dont hear it brought up often enough when people talk about the best fighters of ww2. It could turn very well for its size, saburo sakai once said while all the american fighters we're faster, if you had a hellcat on your tail you had to be worried about it keeping up with maneuvers long enough for a shot. The zero obviously was still more maneuverable, but you make a mistake and the hellcat is on you. Also I read from some grumman design engineers that they thought about how simple farm boys from all over america would be flying a powerful fighter on and off carriers, which is hard enough as it is, so they tried to make it as easy to fly and well-handling as possible. F6F pilots will tell you they succeeded.
The Hellcat and Zero making their free fly day flight at Paine Field last Saturday. The video is 12 minutes, but the first two is the Hellcat deciding if it wanted to start or not. It made me think of Jimmy Stewart trying to start the engine in "Flight of the Phoenix". Enjoy!
American fighter aircraft like the Hellcat, Corsair and the P47 were like American muscle cars which came a little over 20 years later. Big, bulky, very powerful and fast and able to absorb an incredible amount of punishment. The P51 was more like a formula 1 car and the P38 more like a dragster or a funny car on a drag strip. While the Hellcat was the absolutely perfect carrier plane of its time, the Corsair was equally perfect for land based Marine squadrons. All war winners for sure!
This is one of the few videos where one can see the massive size difference between the little 1,000hp Zero and the big 2,000hp F-6 Hellcat. Design of the F-6 started in June 1941, 6 months before Pearl Harbor. The F-4 Corsair was supposed to be the Navy's front line fighter, but Navy pilots had trouble landing the F-4 on aircraft carriers, so the F-4 was given to the Marines operating from land bases. Both the F-4 Corsair and F-6 Hellcat had the same 2,000hp engine.
The R-2800 was also used in: P-47 Thunderbolt, P-61 Black Widow, B-26 Marauder, and the A-26 Invader. On a side note the Brewster F3A-1, GoodyearFG-1 were F4Us built under license.
does he need a little practice starting a hellcat? My dad flew them in WWII and when I was five years old put me in a Douglass AD Skyraider that had side-by-side seats and started the engine. (started on first try although it shook while he worked the throttle and mixture.) This was Miramar NAS 1955. He got called up 2 months after I was born in 1950 during the Korean war and finished as a flight instructor at NAS Kingsville tex in 1957. The sound of that Wright R-3350 engine in the Skyraider is ingrained in my soul although I love the sound of this R-2800 as well. You feel it in your bones.
Zero pilots got a rude awakening when the Hellcat showed up. No doubt, many of them thought Hellcats were Wildcats and that the pilots were green newbies who didn't know any better than to follow them up into a steep climb. But it didn't end well for the Zero pilots. Instead lining up an easy kill on a stalled Wildcat fluttering like a duck, the last thing they saw before they were vaporized was the flash of the Hellcat's 50 cal's.
That Hellcat pilot has nerves of steel. If I had that much trouble starting my car, I wouldn’t drive it to the end of the block. Fly in a machine that doesn’t want to start? Not a chance.
Oh, sometimes the old Pratt & Whitney can have a bad day, and needs to be kicked in the butt to get her going. But, according to my Dad, a WW2 GI, the pilots who flew planes that had the famous R-2800 Double WASP in their mount thought the world of the 2,000 HP she could give them, and with a big 4 blade, paddle prop, could chase the enemy planes all over the sky, and even with battle damage, bring them home.
Zero was a highly successful combat aircraft. Always give credit where credit is due. All acft have their unique strenghts and their weaknesses. It's up to the pilots to perform satisfactory 'balancing acts' between life & death.
The xf6f-6 had a four bladed prop and it got a more powerful engine (r2800-18 with 2450 hp), but the war ended before it could have gone into production.
There are no more Mitsubishi engines left, or flying Zeros. If this is an actual Japanese-made A-6 it was cobbled together out of pieces of other planes. Most Zero replicas (like the ones made for movies out of T-6 Texan trainers) run American engines like the Wright Whirlwind,
Way back, I worked on a Carrier flight deck. We were still flying the old Grumman S2F/G. They had the big Wright Radial engines ( I don’t remember the type, 2800 or whatever). They received constant attention from the mechanics. Sometimes, they were a little “Slow” starting, like this one.
I'll chime-in with gravity causing the lower cylinders of the radial to accumulate oil. I was told this by my maternal uncle, an Air Force Captain in the Vietnam-era and an all-around aircraft aficionado. One of my uncle's favorite movies was The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and a radial engine.
Um, no. I think Paul Allen paid to ensure it was as real as restoration funds could be. If it sounds different, that is because none of the other FWs have the proper engine. They should all sound like this.
Aviation Powerplant Mechanics responsible for the Care-&-Feeding of this HellCat must have felt public Humiliation, on this day. 😢😥 (humor; hey, stuff happens) 🤣
OK, that's wierd. The first time I viewd it after uploading it, the video was crystal clear like it is supposed to be. The second time I looked it was lo-resolution and pixilated. Make sure you get to see it in its full glory.
@@doodleydoo Sure, a smaller cross section is always a sign of advanced technology./s The Zero was fragile. The Hellcat had self sealing fuel tanks but the Zero did not.
Seeing them fly together is a nice symbolic gesture.
My Dad flew an F6F Hellcat as part of VF-82 off of the USS Bennington (CV-20). They are all true heroes.
Wow. That is very cool. Thankful for his service!
Hats off to your Dad. My dad was a plane captain (flight deck crew) on the USS Bennington. He worked on Curtis Helldivers, but had nothing but praise for what he called "the barrel-chested fighter"
I met Pappy Boyington at an Airshow there in summer of 1977, your video brought back some memories of that. Got his book with his Autograph there too!
The Hellcat was the game changer in aerial combat for American naval aviators.
I think it was the Mustang
@@excellNexcel the mustang was a game changer in the European theater.
Love the smell of engine oil and exhaust in the morning !..... This is AWSOME.
And the falses explosions of the exhausts
Pilot: Comon' baby.
Engine: Forget it, I ain't startin' 'till I smoke the joint up real good.
F6F is my favorite warbird. So majestic, and clean but so mean looking too.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these old warbirds and their Pratt & Whitney snarl and howl! They're just the way a 'Cat should sound. Woe to the unlucky aviator who fell into their gun sights.
She is a beauty
Pero no se han ametrallado y eso ¿porqué? Donde está el mérito? Aquí, lo único que se ve es una exhibición obsoleta de dos aeroplanos de hélice y nada más. Si no se han derribado no se donde está el mérito. La próxima vez que se disparen el uno al otro ya que eso es lo que han hecho toda la vida los Yankees, matarse los unos contra los otros y aquí nada de eso es lo que he visto. La próxima vez quiero ver sangre sino no contéis conmigo ¿de acuerdo? 😅 😁 🤣))
The opposite also happened...
The hellcat is such an underrated fighter. You dont hear it brought up often enough when people talk about the best fighters of ww2. It could turn very well for its size, saburo sakai once said while all the american fighters we're faster, if you had a hellcat on your tail you had to be worried about it keeping up with maneuvers long enough for a shot. The zero obviously was still more maneuverable, but you make a mistake and the hellcat is on you. Also I read from some grumman design engineers that they thought about how simple farm boys from all over america would be flying a powerful fighter on and off carriers, which is hard enough as it is, so they tried to make it as easy to fly and well-handling as possible. F6F pilots will tell you they succeeded.
Very well said.
The Hellcat almost got named as the F6F tomcat.
Underrated??? Not a single book, movie or video ever describes the F6F as "underrated"...
On the contrary.
It Still Holds The Record As The Aircraft With The Most Kills.
The Hellcat and Zero making their free fly day flight at Paine Field last Saturday. The video is 12 minutes, but the first two is the Hellcat deciding if it wanted to start or not. It made me think of Jimmy Stewart trying to start the engine in "Flight of the Phoenix". Enjoy!
Hey! Can I use a part of this in a video? :)
American fighter aircraft like the Hellcat, Corsair and the P47 were like American muscle cars which came a little over 20 years later. Big, bulky, very powerful and fast and able to absorb an incredible amount of punishment. The P51 was more like a formula 1 car and the P38 more like a dragster or a funny car on a drag strip. While the Hellcat was the absolutely perfect carrier plane of its time, the Corsair was equally perfect for land based Marine squadrons. All war winners for sure!
Drugs are bad!
This is one of the few videos where one can see the massive size difference between the little 1,000hp Zero and the big 2,000hp F-6 Hellcat.
Design of the F-6 started in June 1941, 6 months before Pearl Harbor.
The F-4 Corsair was supposed to be the Navy's front line fighter, but Navy pilots had trouble landing the F-4 on aircraft carriers, so the F-4 was given to the Marines operating from land bases. Both the F-4 Corsair and F-6 Hellcat had the same 2,000hp engine.
The R-2800 was also used in: P-47 Thunderbolt, P-61 Black Widow, B-26 Marauder, and the A-26 Invader. On a side note the Brewster F3A-1, GoodyearFG-1 were F4Us built under license.
Good video of the Hellcat and Zero!
Great sound!
Hi Steve. Absolute good filming at the right time and place. I just love the F6F Hellcat.
I cant vaite to see more :-)
Tomas.
I have a one fifth scale radio control model of this aeroplane .and it fly as good as it looks. Superb
does he need a little practice starting a hellcat? My dad flew them in WWII and when I was five years old put me in a Douglass AD Skyraider that had side-by-side seats and started the engine. (started on first try although it shook while he worked the throttle and mixture.) This was Miramar NAS 1955. He got called up 2 months after I was born in 1950 during the Korean war and finished as a flight instructor at NAS Kingsville tex in 1957. The sound of that Wright R-3350 engine in the Skyraider is ingrained in my soul although I love the sound of this R-2800 as well. You feel it in your bones.
Usually the tail markings on a hellcat was for the carrier they flew from , or wing stripe also on tbf s and sbds
Sehr schöne Flugzeuge 😎 ich liebe die alten Jagdvögel👏
Hellcat was the best fighter of the war and its record proves it. Over 5000 kills more than any other fighter in ww2.
Yeah, no !
@@adambane1719 no what
@@bradganz6787 no, bf109 I suppose..
Zero pilots got a rude awakening when the Hellcat showed up. No doubt, many of them thought Hellcats were Wildcats and that the pilots were green newbies who didn't know any better than to follow them up into a steep climb. But it didn't end well for the Zero pilots. Instead lining up an easy kill on a stalled Wildcat fluttering like a duck, the last thing they saw before they were vaporized was the flash of the Hellcat's 50 cal's.
Those Zero's spent most of their time WHOOPING the American invaders asses !!!
When you have the throttle opened up to far on a radial engine start up , that’s what you get ..backfires. He took a good while to figure that out.
At the beginning, is that a cleaning procedure, to remove/burn excessive engine oil out of the combustion chambers?
Jap Zero engine starts up without complaining; it's very polite. 😆🤣
The narrator says the Zero does NOT, have an original Japanese engine, but an American engin
That Hellcat pilot has nerves of steel. If I had that much trouble starting my car, I wouldn’t drive it to the end of the block. Fly in a machine that doesn’t want to start? Not a chance.
Have to kno correct start proceedues....most of the youngsters didn't have problems
Oh, sometimes the old Pratt & Whitney can have a bad day, and needs to be kicked in the butt to get her going. But, according to my Dad, a WW2 GI, the pilots who flew planes that had the famous R-2800 Double WASP in their mount thought the world of the 2,000 HP she could give them, and with a big 4 blade, paddle prop, could chase the enemy planes all over the sky, and even with battle damage, bring them home.
Joseph...I've heard old timers say that you don't start an R-2800...you wake it up. (I guess they sometimes will hit the snooze button)
What an awesome site and sound, WW2 aircraft are myall time favorites!
How cool is that?
The Hellcat, nicknamed the Zero Killer.
The Zero's were nicknamed the Yankee Killers !!!
Zero was a highly successful combat aircraft.
Always give credit where credit is due.
All acft have their unique strenghts and their weaknesses. It's up to the pilots to perform satisfactory 'balancing acts' between life & death.
古い動画だけど、当時はお互い命のやり取りをしていた機体が並んで飛ぶその姿。
ありがとうございました😊
Five thumbs up
The Hellcat could take a beating. The Zero could not.
Tojo's bane 🐈⬛
Get the fuel mixture right
I'll take the thunderbolt
I've wondered why the hellcat never got the 4 blade prop?
I've seen them with four blade
The xf6f-6 had a four bladed prop and it got a more powerful engine (r2800-18 with 2450 hp), but the war ended before it could have gone into production.
Naturally the rice burner fires right up
😆🤣😂
The Narrator says the Zero does Not have a Japanese engine, but an American engine.
There are no more Mitsubishi engines left, or flying Zeros. If this is an actual Japanese-made A-6 it was cobbled together out of pieces of other planes. Most Zero replicas (like the ones made for movies out of T-6 Texan trainers) run American engines like the Wright Whirlwind,
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What do I know, but I would not feel good about taking my life up in a plane whose engine was that reticent to stay running.
This engine seems to have some starting issues compared with others I've heard. Those backfires can't be good for it.
Way back, I worked on a Carrier flight deck. We were still flying the old Grumman S2F/G. They had the big Wright Radial engines ( I don’t remember the type, 2800 or whatever). They received constant attention from the mechanics. Sometimes, they were a little “Slow” starting, like this one.
I'll chime-in with gravity causing the lower cylinders of the radial to accumulate oil. I was told this by my maternal uncle, an Air Force Captain in the Vietnam-era and an all-around aircraft aficionado. One of my uncle's favorite movies was The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and a radial engine.
Oooh is that a fakewulf 190
Um, no. I think Paul Allen paid to ensure it was as real as restoration funds could be. If it sounds different, that is because none of the other FWs have the proper engine. They should all sound like this.
Spell check on that
The Hellcat is pretty cool ... but the Zero is the airplane of HEROES !!!!!
売却済みANA機が背景に
This guy s hold learn the start procedure for R 2800...
you don't really "start" them, you have to wake them up cylinder by cylinder, lol.
Both such simple aircraft. Hellcat? It's more like a fatcat. Colour scheme of the Hellcat? Post Marianas Turkey Shoot surely.
Aviation Powerplant Mechanics responsible for the Care-&-Feeding of this HellCat must have felt public Humiliation, on this day. 😢😥
(humor; hey, stuff happens) 🤣
OK, that's wierd. The first time I viewd it after uploading it, the video was crystal clear like it is supposed to be. The second time I looked it was lo-resolution and pixilated. Make sure you get to see it in its full glory.
It's not that popular in think bcz it's nt very good looking
Obviously he doesn't know how to start the engine.
the hellcat looks like a beached walrus in comparison (fat & ugly)!
Zero has better technology as Hellcat
Such as?
@@jkorshak Hellcat is fat.
@@doodleydoo Sure, a smaller cross section is always a sign of advanced technology./s
The Zero was fragile.
The Hellcat had self sealing fuel tanks but the Zero did not.