Betty Beware

Looks amazing. Can't wait to see Betty go boom! :jump:
 
Was the cannon a reallife loadout on the F6? I've never heard of it before. So it has 4x.50 and 2x20m?
 
From what I have seen, the machine guns were removed in the field and replaced with just 2x20mm cannons. They just put the new guns in the slots where the old ones used to be. and left a few empty holes in the wings...
 
NP. No sorry i am not that intellegent to fix the loadout issue, i just put my cannons over the inboard 50.cals and changed them to cannons,

MustangNightFighter,Oldcrow, Acording to my research There were very few F6F's with cannon, but they retained the 50.cals, so they had 4 50.cals plus 2x 20mm cannons, (But this is not to say i am correct in the matter of the 50.cals) Here follows a snippet from Wikpedia, Although i have it as researched as 225 RPG. instead of 220. RPG. as stated below.

" Standard armament on the F6F consisted of six .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M2/AN air-cooled machine guns with 400 rpg; later aircraft gained three hardpoints to carry a total bombload in excess of 2,000 lb (900 kg). The center hardpoint also had the ability to carry a single 150 gal (568 L) disposable drop tank. Six 5 in (127 mm) HVARs (High Velocity Aircraft Rocket)[12] could be carried; three under each wing.[13]
The next and most common variant, the F6F-5, featured improvements such as a more powerful R-2800-10W engine housed in a slightly more streamlined engine cowling, spring-loaded control tabs on the ailerons, deletion of the rear-view windows behind the main canopy, an improved, clear view windscreen with a flat armored-glass front panel replacing the curved perspex panel and internal armor glass screen and numerous other minor advances.[10][14] Another improvement in the F6F-5 was the availability of more potent armament than the standard six .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. Trials with cannon-armed Hellcats were not followed up by a production version; although all F6F-5s could carry an armament mix of a pair of Hispano 20 mm (0.79 in) cannon, one mounted in each of the inboard gun bays, with a minimum of 220 rpg, along with two pairs of .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, with 400 rpg, this configuration was only used on many later F6F-5N night fighters.[15]"
 
OldCrow said:
Was the cannon a reallife loadout on the F6? I've never heard of it before. So it has 4x.50 and 2x20m?
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:kilroy:OldCrow, yes, on the F6F-5N.

F6F-5N Hellcat: Night-fighter version, fitted with an AN/APS-6 radar.
Armament:
Guns:
1. Either 6 x 0.50 in (12.5 mm, aka .50 cal)M2 Browning machine guns, with 400 rpg, (All F6F-3, and most F6F-5),
2. or 2 x 20mm cannon (in place of the two inboard M2 Browning machine guns), with 225 rpg, and 4 x 0.50 in *12.7mm, aka .50 cal) M2 Browning machine guns, with 400 rpg (F6F-5N only).

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Hellcat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F6F_Hellcat
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/tru/kit_tru_2259.shtml
http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/f6f5n48bg_1.htm
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Yeah the Trumpeter 1/32 scale stuff's prolly real nice... but if I had told my mom I wanted to build an $89.95 plastic aeroplane, she would have laughed me into the next room!:costumes:
 
grizzly50 said:
:kilroy:OldCrow, yes, on the F6F-5N.

F6F-5N Hellcat: Night-fighter version, fitted with an AN/APS-6 radar.
Armament:
Guns:
1. Either 6 x 0.50 in (12.5 mm, aka .50 cal)M2 Browning machine guns, with 400 rpg, (All F6F-3, and most F6F-5),
2. or 2 x 20mm cannon (in place of the two inboard M2 Browning machine guns), with 225 rpg, and 4 x 0.50 in *12.7mm, aka .50 cal) M2 Browning machine guns, with 400 rpg (F6F-5N only).

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Hellcat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F6F_Hellcat
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/tru/kit_tru_2259.shtml
http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/f6f5n48bg_1.htm
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Thanks, that's sweet!
BTW, you didn't need to include all the proof...I believe ya! :)
 
Aah yes...

Temporarily located near Buka with nothing gassed up 'cept fer a Widgeon and a tired old Wildcat... The C.O. bein' an old friend from the Camans...
...wellsir, I needed an excuse to finish breaking in a fresh set up. soze we -I decided ta BEND protocol just a little and go inform a pair of Betty's they weren't invited to this party... when somehow both their arses... I mean tail sections seem ta have got blowed off... and imagine my surprise when I wuz asked if I had nuttin' ta do about it....:engel016:
 
BTW in Jaycee's readme the "xml" should read "xdp".... otherwise, no problems... only joy:ernae:
 
And all done with a droptank still attached, a vet like you pop, should know thats dangerous, one japanese bullet in you'r DT. and its :wave:
 
Why, I don't know what'cher talkin' about... I wuz never AT the aforementioned coordinates... And anyways, the tank wuz empty...:whistle:
 
I wuz bein' XTRA careful 'cause it weren't a/v fuel in that tank ...it wuz some 34 gallons of the best plum hooch we
"liberated" from an airstrip on the west end of Rabaal... and tho' it wuz prolly high enuf octane ta run the Hellcat, 't'wasn't the Betty's guns I wuz afraid of (tho' on a later inspection it was discovered I had taken a hit on my horizontal stab.)...
But if I had returned w/o my bird AND its drop tank my partners back on Buka would 'a burned me at the STAKE...(an' I don't mean Porterhouse neither!):friday: ....Them Japs could DRINK!!!
 
popsaka said:
I wuz bein' XTRA careful 'cause it weren't a/v fuel in that tank ...it wuz some 34 gallons of the best plum hooch we
"liberated" from an airstrip on the west end of Rabaal... and tho' it wuz prolly high enuf octane ta run the Hellcat, 't'wasn't the Betty's guns I wuz afraid of (tho' on a later inspection it was discovered I had taken a hit on my horizontal stab.)...
But if I had returned w/o my bird AND its drop tank my partners back on Buka would 'a burned me at the STAKE...(an' I don't mean Porterhouse neither!):friday: ....Them Japs could DRINK!!!
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Nice One. LOL.
 
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