Full Size Printed Plans Control Line Scale 1:12 F4F-3 Grumman WILDCAT detailed plans
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Full Size Printed Plans and Article
Flying scale fans are certain to hail these detailed plans for one of the Navy's best known fighters
F4F-3 Grumman WILDCAT
ONE FULL SIZE PRINTED PLAN on SHEET 43” x 28”
Six Page Article with Building notes, photos plus 11"x 17" exploded view
Control Line
Scale 1” = 1 foot
Wingspan 38"
Engines .29 to .60 (1963 versions)
by WALTER A. MUSCIANO
When the Japanese task force struck at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the United States was woefully unprepared to battle the vaunted Mitsubishi Zero fighter. Only one airplane in Uncle Sam's arsenal proved itself against the Japanese Naval menace and. this was the Wildcat, Grumman's first venture with monoplane all metal fighters. The most used version of this distinctive midwing design, the F4F-3, was the U.S. Navy's first line standard fighter and bore the brunt' of the fighting in the South Pacific throughout 1942-1943 until it was replaced by the newer Hellcat and Corsair.
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