[alfa6]

Greetings to all the Freepers out there in Freeperland. Time for a quick Friday Flyby. Tonight a look at the Grumman F7F Tigercat. Designed as a twin engined carrier based aircraft the Tigercat just missed out on service in WW-II. With a all up weight of over 25,000pounds and powered by 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engines that developed 2,100hp each thew Tigercat could hit in excess of 400mph at altitude.

Well on with the pics.

The Tigercat was designed to have a very narrow frontal area as this picture shows.

A nice inflight shot of an F7F-3P model. This plane makes the rounds of the European airshows.

The Grumman duo that just missed out on WW-II, coming...

And going...

And if one Tigercat is cooler then two Tigercats should be even cooler, eh?

A nice picture from dave Stewart that show up the sleekness of the F7F versus an F6F Hellcat. Both plane were powered by the P&W R-2800 engine.

Well that all for tonight's Friday Flyby. Hope everyone has a greaty weekend and we will see you in the future.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[ConorMacNessa]

Great FlyBy, alfa! Thanks very much!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[luvie]

Thanks for the Flyby, Alfa! It is a cool warbird, and sorry
it didn’t make it to the fight. It would have been a heavy-hitter!

Hope you and yours have a good weekend!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, alfa...((HUGS))...I have been so busy at work that I’ve been missing you and the wonderful Friday Flyby. Thank you for the Grumman F7F Tigercat....it looks like you need a shoehorn to get in it.

[AZamericonnie]

Wow alpha.....that’s the skinniest plane I’ve ever seen!

Thanks so much for the flyby this evening.

A weekend off for you? Any new projects? *Hugs*

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Alfa6!

The F7F was one of the handsomest A/C ever.

We all like the fast movers and strike A/C but do you have any interesting stuff on Heavies?