Butcher Bird Hellcat & Corsair: A test pilot recalls
During WW II, we in the military were not allowed to save notes, keep diaries or take pictures, and being a Boy Scout type, I lived by the rules. Now, decades later, when I’m called to write about some of my flight experiences, I wish that I had bent the rules a little. Thank goodness I have a copy of our Patuxent Naval Air Test Center “Report of Comparative Combat Evaluation of the Focke-Wulf 190A-4,”...
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Butcher Bird Hellcat & Corsair: A test pilot recalls
Article in August 2020 Issue
ON THE COVER: Jason Somes, of the Socal CAF Wing brings it in close for the camera in the Camarillo Museums NAA PBJ-1J, the sole surviving 'Marine Mitchell'.
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