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F6f3_hellcat released by Captain Kurt!

Let me be the first to thank you Captain Kurt,my son was looking forward to this plane to continue work on his USS Enterprise campaign his uncle started years ago.

Hiede
 
F6F-3 Hellcat

Hi Captain Kurt, Thank you for an excellent Aircraft. The panel is a Very good one far better than the atrocious one that came with the Microsoft Aircraft. It was nearly as bad as their P-38 Lightnings panel; Which you thankfully corrected.
Please keep up the good work !!

Thanks again,
Regards,
1150
 
Absolutely excellent, many thanks Captain, for this one and also for all the work you delivered on CFS2 to our great pleasure!
Salute
 
Reply...

Captain Kurt,

Wow...what an unexpected and completely amazing new rendition of the Hellcat! Downloading it today.....many thanks, good buddy! :santahat:
 
Kurt,

Very nice! I wish that you can update it with animation in the VC and add the break apart wing logic.

Andrew
 
Absolutely beautiful Kurt,

Superb work both on build and tex, so glad you did it in FSDS, old but still a very capable prog!

You know me, love the little details such as the pitot and drop tank strap detail, even the radio aerial mounting points and formation ID lights...many thanks for this stunner.

Andrew,
I still can't get why people seem to think that falling off wings, tail planes and engines are remotely realistic. I bet you it will be nigh on impossible to find any gun camera footage or evidence of a wing breaking off a Hellcat. Yes, Japanese ac broke or blew up, and yes the unarmoured lighter early war ac did have structural failures, but in general ac were shot down because the pilot was injured or killed, or a critical system (ie fuel, coolant, hydraulics etc) was damaged, or there was a fire. CFS2 replicates this quite well, without major components being blown off!.;)

Fani,
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, but if you look at colour pics from the war, you can see that some were actually polished gunmetal or chrome, so CK's ac is quite correct.

Cheers

Shessi
 
There was some kind of a jacket that went around the barrels (asbestos to insulate the heat maybe?). Anyway, only the end of the muzzles stuck out of the front. A close up photo I have shows it wasn't quite smooth, leading me to think it was asbestos packing. Most were actually white colored (natural color?) but by the dash 5 they had been uniformly painted blue.

Thanks for all the kind comments. I'm out of here for the next couple weeks so I'll catch you all on the backside of that.

TTFN
 
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