Wildcat 2 by Buffalo1

Photography • Aviation • posted on Jun 08, 2007

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Got a request for a brighter view of the FM-2 Wildcat. Here it is. Enjoy.

Comments (15)

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RodolfoCiminelli

10:54AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Fantastic airplane and excellent photo my friend.....!!!

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TwoPynts

11:10AM | Fri, 08 June 2007

That would be a blast to take for a spin I bet. ;']

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elmurray

1:51PM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Wouldn't mind a spin in that myself! Great capture of this wonderful aeroplane!

Denys234

5:07PM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Well done!!

JackSprat

10:02PM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Thanks, Buffalo. I like this view very much

vkoontz

11:06PM | Fri, 08 June 2007

Great pic. Looks like a pre or early WWII model the "meatball" insign was discontinued for obvious reasons. Later models had six guns which reduced the ammo load that pilots didn't like. Despite that it couldn't compete with the Zero in speed or agility it had armor and tactics were developed and it held the line. When the F-4U and A-6 came into service the Zero became obsolete. Grumman had a "cat" logo with alot of their aircraft littlecat,wildcat,hellcat,tigercat,bearcat,panther,tomcat,agcat,etc.

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Buffalo1

3:10PM | Sat, 09 June 2007

@vkoontz: It's actually a later model General Motors FM-2 Wildcat painted to look like an early Grumman F4F-3. Hard to tell which model from this angle since the main visual difference is the tail. The FM-2 was much lighter and faster than the six gun F4F-4/FM-1 and went back to the four .50 cal. machine gun armament. See the first Wildcat post on page 1 of my gallery.

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