[ARC5] ZB discussion! - WWII Aircraft

[Gary Pewitt]

Are you sure the Helldiver was bigger than the TBF/TBM Avenger?  They 
were in use long after the war as anti-sub,  radar picket planes, and 
COD's.  The Hellcat was a lot bigger than the Wildcat, not what I'd call
a small aircraft.  I got to meet Adolph Galland at a Salt Lake city gun 
show years ago and he was showing a Messerschmidt BF-109.  Now -that's- 
a small airplane.  I couldn't believe how small it was.  It's hard to 
imagine the guts it took to tear into a 1000 bomber formation escorted 
by swarms of P-47's, P-38's, and P-51's  in such a little fragile 
fighter plane.

73  Gary




On 5/24/2010 11:59 PM, Bob Macklin wrote:
> Any carrier based aircraft of today is lager than the largest carrier based
> aircraft of WWII. The F4F wildcat and F6F Hellcat were very small airplanes.
> The largest carrier based aircraft of WWII was the Curtis SB2C Helldiver.
> The flight crews named it the BEAST!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ZB discussion! - WWII Aircraft
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>    
>> Bob:
>>
>> Is a WWIII aircraft larger or smaller than a WWII aircraft (from 10,000
>> feet)?
>>
>>
>> Les
>>
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