Holy crap @ 5:12... Kermit GREASED that landing! Fantastic.

That is one be-a-u-ti-ful bird.

P.S. I had a 1968 Super Bee that sounded like that when idling. That sucker was a beast.

Sounds like a nasty big HARLEY...!!!

Here's a challenge for Mister Kermit - have all of your chums dress like WWII sailors and they run to the Wildcat and flip those wings back in, like, nine seconds. That's called Military Arial Ballet on Deck or something. Just a wild idea.

The FM-2 designation means this Wildcat was built by General Motors, probably after Grumman was busy building the Hellcat in numbers. IIRC they also farmed out production of the Avenger bomber to other manufacturers.

Those Pratt&Whitney radials have that awesome lope to them. They just sound bad ass. And gymover, I couldn't have said it better. And he gets to fly really cool stuff too.

@dyer2cycle

5 жыл бұрын

This is an FM-2, not an F4F...So- this is a Wright R-1820 single-row 9-cylinder Cyclone, rather than the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 two-row 14 cylinder Twin Wasp of the F4F...you are hearing the music of a Wright, not a Pratt & Whitney :)

Wow The wildcat is actually pretty sleek when you see it up close:)

Yes I like the wildcat and the bearcat in the hellcat never got to see bearcat though or the hellcat

Kermit Weeks should be the leader of the entire world, he is so proper, the only one person that should be in charge of everything, why can't anyone else on the planet be such a good egg as he is?

@acrophobic892

6 жыл бұрын

gymover Cause people are AIDS these days.

I would put an electric motor on the dear to crank it up or down...!!!

Yes you got a crank the gear up with hand

Wonder how it would fly with the T28 version of the 1820...???!!!

Kermit I got to see one of these at Tico air show the wildcat used to be a dark blue one used to come out in the middle 90s at Tico

I live over in Kissimmee, I have yet to visit this place, I really wana go when they fly these old birds. Is there any set schedule when they do it? Ive only ever seen air shows at Pensacola NAS when I lived there etc.

Nobody doesn't like Kermit Weeks!

oh thats cool, I will have to drag the wife there sometime, been pretty nasty here the last few days.

sorry for the delay I had no idea you had asked a question. There is no schedule really you just have to show up (buy a year pass) and see what they're flying that day..P-51..The Duck..The Storch...a WW1 plane you never know.

@TRStronks46

7 жыл бұрын

nathan gates a

NOTHING has such a gruff growl and lope of a 9-cylinder Wright R-1820 with open exhaust :)

Sounds like a tractor!

Thats gear... not dear...,!!😱🙄😳