Hellcat inside

Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:01 am

Gretings all,

I am wonder is anywhere available color photos of the interior of the Grumman Hellcat. There is many images of the retsored airplanes but I am curious to see any interior.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:16 am

It is possible that the Fleet Air Arm Museum's Hellcat may have an unrestored interior; an e-mail to them would establish that. There are, of course, B&W shots by Grumman in ArmyJunk's stunning thread at the top of the page, but I don't recall any colour shots from wartime myself.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:26 am

The best I can do :shock:

Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:09 am

Martin

Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:07 am

Oooo my God- I hope that airman on image are not dead

Jack, any more info?

Great image Swiss Mustang, I think that I have somehwere similar angle and color image.

Good idea JDK about the FAA musum. I will try to get in contact.

To be hinest my request is maybe some silly. I get amazing and brand new scale kit from Eduard in 1/48. Maybe I am a little bit spoiled but I prefer to use archive images even in model works. Maybe not to achieve perfection but as possible close to the authentic look. Maybe I will make plane flown by Alexander Vraciu [is he Romanian?] and have white 19 number on fuselage.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:49 pm

Try this site:

http://uscockpits.com/

look under Early Fighters and you will find some F6F shots. One or 2 are in color.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:07 pm

Mgawa wrote:Maybe I will make plane flown by Alexander Vraciu [is he Romanian?] and have white 19 number on fuselage.

He is of Polish descent I believe and born in East Chicago, Indiana USA.

http://www.alexvraciu.net/Alex-Vraciu-Bio.html#Vraciu

http://www.alexvraciu.net/index.html#Vraciu

Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:28 pm

Excellent interior images- thank you for link

It look that cockpit green is the same as the protective green.

Must say that Vraciu is interesting person and I have enjoy when I have seen Robert taylor painting on his page

Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:45 pm

bdk wrote:
Mgawa wrote:Maybe I will make plane flown by Alexander Vraciu [is he Romanian?] and have white 19 number on fuselage.
He is of Polish descent I believe and born in East Chicago, Indiana USA.

He was indeed of Romanian descent. I'll post a recent picture of him this evening - I had the pleasure of hearing him speak and spending some time in his company late last year.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:00 pm

Isn't TFC's Hellcat one flown by Vraciu?

greg v.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:49 pm

Mike- I am sure your story will be interesting

Thank you very much

One favor- I would like to make color profile of his airplane so did any of you have image where whole airplane could be seen?

Cheers

Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:41 pm

gregv wrote:Isn't TFC's Hellcat one flown by Vraciu?

greg v.

Indeed it is

http://www.fighter-collection.com/pages ... /index.php

Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:41 pm

gregv wrote:Isn't TFC's Hellcat one flown by Vraciu?

I thought Vraciu flew an F6F-3.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:46 pm

bdk wrote:
gregv wrote:Isn't TFC's Hellcat one flown by Vraciu?
I thought Vraciu flew an F6F-3.

Don't let's go there! :wink:

Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:49 pm

As I know he flew later production F6F3 but nothing for sure.

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