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Volume 16, Issue 10
1 October 1944
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1944

Modern Aeroplane Types: The Grumman Hellcat Fleet Fighter

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1944
Aircraft Engineering (1944) 16 (10): 287–296.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031174

THE Hellcat (U.S. Navy designation F6F) is typical of the aerodynamic design of most Grumman types. Although it is an entirely new aeroplane it bears a striking likeness to the earlier Wildcat (Martlet). It has the same square wing tips and rudder, while the general form of the fuselage is very similar indeed.

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