1305 - 1/72 F6F-3/5 Hellcat WWII Italeri  [IT-1305S]

Period: 2nd World War

Nation: Usa

Model Dim.: 14 cm

F6F-3/5 HELLCAT

The Hellcat may be the most useful carrier-based fighter aircraft become utilized by the Allies during World War 2. Despite its ponderous appearance and considerable fat, it possessed outstanding control faculties, of fully guaranteed by the powerful PW R-2800 motor. Along side its robust framework, this enabled it to manage a variety of types of Japanese fighters of contained in the Pacific Ocean cinema. The Hellcat joined up with with solution in 1943 and quickly became the original fighter the united states Navy. Although at first found in exactly the same way a fighter, it had been down the road utilized an as environment help aircraft for troops, using various size bombs and air-to-surface rockets. The F6 have now been employed by the Royal Navy in Asia and the north Atlantic, mainly because French Navy, who received it after war, tried it in front of the mid 50s.