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Though it fly 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...
...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...
...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...
...Wildcat (Grumman F4F), to which Under Secretary Forrestal of the Navy referred when he said "In my opinion Grumman saved Guadalcanal." Powered by a 1,200-h.p. engine, the Wildcat is still regarded as better than anything the Jap has, is still being manufactured...
...Avenger (Grumman TBF), the world's best, and the Navy's chief reliance since it superseded the Douglas Devastator (TBD) beginning with the battle of Midway. Fast and wellarmed, the big Avenger has plenty of interchangeability, can carry bombs, a huge gas tank, or a torpedo in its bomb bay. Airmen like to tell how an Avenger pilot landed on a carrier, opened up his bomb-bay doors and deposited four hitchhiking sailormen on the deck before he and his crew of two climbed down...