Details

F4F-3

Brand EDUARD

SKU EDU648826 EAN 8591437577309

Features

Nation: United States of America

Period: WWII

Scale: 1/48

Type: Aircraft

Price 38,35 €

Description

1/48 F4F-3 Engine Late (for Eduard)

The Grumman F4F Wildcat was a single-engine, single-seat, medium-wing, embarked fighter aircraft developed by the U.S. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the late 1930s.

Produced in the late decade to early 1940s, it was the successor to, and descendant of, the F3F, the last biplane fighter in service with the United States Navye of the entire United States Air Force. Originally designed in its own right as a biplane, it was later modified by sacrificing some of the maneuverability to achieve the speed that a double-winged aircraft could not provide and that an interceptor needed.

It was the principal fighter embarked on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers between 1941 and 1942, i.e., during the first two years of participation in World War II.

Some upgraded versions, including the FM Wildcat built by General Motors, remained operational until the end of the conflict primarily as equipment for escort carriers, units that could not handle the larger and more powerful Grumman F6F Hellcat or the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, which supplanted them instead on squadron carriers.