Love all the Cats. We used to run a Tiger Cat here in the UK at Duxford . I believe it now lives in the USA. 2 huge engines and a pencil fuselage shes a beauty and climbs like a beast.

Its amazing 1940's planes don't look dated at all. But you look at the cars in the parking lot and they look ancient.

@jestertoo

3 жыл бұрын

Rarebear looks like a different beast from a stock F8

@thewaltbrownellchannel9318

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the planes were divinely designed

I was there! I flew there in my friend's AT6 ,from Santa Fe ! 👍😊

Thanks so much Brad! Been waiting for years to see this published!

Awesome - a piece of history ! Thanks for posting :-)

Nice piece, Brad. Thanks for posting this.

Watched Lyle and "Rare Bear" at Reno in '89&'90, what a privilege.I'll never forget the sound, the speed, the race, the plane and the man. Thanks for posting

@flyingcatsofthesalishsea.

6 жыл бұрын

I was there in 89 too!

@bristleconepinus2378

Жыл бұрын

@@flyingcatsofthesalishsea. me too, got Lyle's autograph, Hoover's too.

This footage is such a rich time capsule!!!

I worked for Specialized Testing Service and Sandy Friezner at this time. Lyle, Sandy and Clay Lacer were very close friends. I instrumented the P3 “Paddle blades” a few years later at Van Nuys.

@gaylepayne128

5 жыл бұрын

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@ralphgregory7616

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍

The soundtrack is amazing

WHAT a SOUND!

I was there in 1976 at Mojave when it crashed. I had never seen a plane crash before. Shelton was on a qualifying run and managed to bring it around to the landing strip after his oil pump failed, but his approach was way too steep and he hit the strip at an angle where his left landing gear took all the stress and collapsed. He slid down the length of the runway, shooting sparks and flame from underneath the aircraft. A spectacular show for the people sitting in the grandstands, to be sure. Too bad though. He was the only competition to the Red Baron, a heavily modified P-51 mustang with a huge motor and twin contra-rotating propellers. He ended up winning the race easily.

@lulubellers

3 жыл бұрын

I was there too with my family & saw that.

Rare bear was a sweet machine

Saw a F-8 in the Navy air museum at Pensacola but they look much better in the air.

Thanks, I thought they forgot ... I been gone awhile.

RIP Lyle!

I have a mint 78 Mojave air race poster framed on my wall. Family treasure.

Wow, he goes as fast as a slow 38 round.

@leefithian3704

3 жыл бұрын

Man that’s still cool

That's one fast cat!

I would love to know the modifications done to the engine to increase reliability, after all she is not exactly stock horse power or RPM anymore.

@rarebear7788

4 жыл бұрын

She's still pretty unreliable lol

@EncrypticMethods

2 жыл бұрын

@@rarebear7788 Yeah, considering the fact that a lot of these modified war birds are still rocking ORIGINAL parts, not that reliable. 😏

@thethirdman225

9 ай бұрын

I don't know that there was a lot of modification done. There was an excellent article about this in the British magazine 'AIR International' at the time. I remember it ran on special fuel and put out about 4,000 hp for this run. But I doubt anyone ever dyno tested it.

Love is in the Air,.. chuckle

Fastest bear on the planet.

@MagravatorMag

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it was the only one in existence at one time.

What happened to this plane? Where is it now?

@ 3:40.....Ray Cote on the right??

I fly a cessna 150. If power is on idle on approach and you give full throttle for go around will it flip over from torque ? Just wondering 😎

@marka8947

4 жыл бұрын

With 100 horsepower? No. You will be fine. Just keep on the right rudder....

can a prop driven plain brake the speed of sound.

@Red-rl1xx

6 жыл бұрын

glenn maidhof No. As the rotational speed of the tips of the propeller approaches the speed of sound, there's a sharp fall in the propeller's efficiency, meaning it can't pull the plane through the air as well. Back in the '50's, the U.S. gov't made an effort to develop a supersonic propeller, but without success, in the XF-84 "Thunderscreech". The noise generated by the propeller actually made nearby ground crew nauseous.

@P51

6 жыл бұрын

yes, it can...unlikely it would stay together after doing so, though

@johnosbourn4312

6 жыл бұрын

glenn maidhof No, it can't, because of the aerodynamic limitations of the propeller.

@jamesadams2336

5 жыл бұрын

No a prop driven plane cannot break the speed of sound

@jorgsobota2228

4 жыл бұрын

Yes - if the pilot is bold, the plane is stable, sleek and the dive is long enough. However, the pilot won't live to tell about it because he won't be able to pull out of the dive without disintegrating the plane...

Lockheed L-101?? L-1011 maybe

nasty sound of rare bear early

Ahhh, Los Vegas is in NV not NM !!

Wow - I never realized that Las Vegas was once located in New Mexico!!!! - Always thought it was to be found in Nevada (NV)

@black70bird

5 жыл бұрын

There are two Las Vegas, one in NM and one in Nevada.

@tomburley

5 жыл бұрын

OK - thanks for the correction - a small city in NM is a strange place for Rare Bear to be setting speed records but thanks for pointing its existence out to me.

@black70bird

5 жыл бұрын

I did not know it existed until I drove through it.

Reno is at ground level, but WW2 fighters like the Bearcat were designed to fly their fastest at about 30,000 feet, for dogfighting and to escort bombers. So what top speed would Rare Bear be able to reach at 30,000 feet, a/ if no adjustments were made to its current engine and b/ if it were adjusted to give its best at 30,000 feet?

Rev to hard engine stands still and plane spins

Its a shame the Bear doesn't have that quad prop anymore. Its nowhere near as fast as it was then.

@thethirdman225

9 ай бұрын

The three blader sounds better though...

The old guys club ... & Ski was skin in the Zeke Worked 4 gunnel & northrup scool @ night ...

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I will hazard a guess and say that this may once have been a Grumman "Bearcat" as the commentary tells us sod all !!

Talks to much can’t hear the plane

@einherz

4 жыл бұрын

lol

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it looks like a FW-190 or sea fury.

looks like junior cousin of fw-190 :)

ive heard the hellcat had a stout body and it did because it was originally designed as a Bi winged plane !,, but ended up as a single wing with its stout body...

@richardlux2477

5 жыл бұрын

You are mistaking the F6F Hellcat with its forerunner, the F4F Wildcat. The Wildcats forerunner was a biplane, the F3F.

@mgn5667

5 жыл бұрын

@Richard Lux i dont think so.. the bodies were built 4 bi wings and used otherwise they kept it because the mighty strength,, and, they needed it the plane had more wing surface area than any U.S Single engined Fighter , even more than the jug

@taproom113

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgn5667 Richard Lux is correct. The F-6F Hellcat was a mono-wing design from the get-go. Check Grumman history before you post about it again.

@mgn5667

5 жыл бұрын

@@taproom113 hey wait a minute:: this plane came from a bi wing engineering from another plane thats why it is so stout ! they kept the body engineering and changed to mono wings ..dont tell me..

@jorgsobota2228

4 жыл бұрын

@@mgn5667 What are you making up here? The F8F went into Service in 1945 and was one of the pinnacles of late prop fighters, the last Grumman Biplanes were built in 1937. As far as Aircraft engineering goes some decades before. It had nothing to do with his ancestors and the barrel-shape was, as with every plane with these engines, a logic form to integrate the engine into the body. With your logic the Sea Fury has a barrel shape because the Hawker Fury from 1936 was a Biplane (with an inline engine btw...)... Go and read something about the history of these planes, the sources are plenty if you WANT to read them and gain knowledge. If not, of course, stay withyour BS...

A fw190 with higher octanes good job guys this tech goes back to 1939

Lame name...

@toadamine

2 жыл бұрын

@@TwistedTerrorOfficial ullet