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Pacific Legends Day - F6F Hellcat - A6M3 Zero - Flying Heritage Collection

www.facebook.com/Fight2Fly www.facebook.com/Flyingheritage Saturday, June, 29 2013 was Flying Heritage Collection's "Pacific Legends Day" featuring the public debut of their recently restored Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat and Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Reisen "Zero." Info about these two aircraft from www.flyingheritagecollection.com: Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat: This aircraft was designed to be flown as an unmanned drone for anti-aircraft target practice, but was instead used for training. It has never undergone a thorough restoration, so is very close to its original condition. It is one of only a few surviving Hellcats, the Navy's fighting workhorse of the Pacific Theater battles. By 1945, there were gaggles of Navy carrier planes seemingly everywhere in the skies over the Pacific. To keep track of who was who, the Navy ordered distinctive and bold white symbols painted on the aircraft so flyers could tell, for example, Hellcats from the USS Franklin (a single white diamond) from the USS Hornet (white checkers). Mostly straight lines, (curves and circles took too long to lay out), the geometric shapes—chevrons, triangles, squares, and stripes—where quickly nicknamed "G-Symbols." They adorned the tails and wings of all fast carrier Navy planes in combat in the Pacific. Aircraft from the Randolph received white tails and ailerons. The Insignia White field on the tail was broken by a trio of 7-inch blue horizontal lines. The FHC's Hellcat now wears this distinctive "G-Symbol" pattern. Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Reisen "Zero" This Zero was one of many Japanese combat planes destroyed by American bombing on Babo Airfield in New Guinea during World War II. In the early 1990s this Zero wreck was discovered and acquired by Bruce Fenstermaker and the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. Around 1994, three recovered Zeros, including this one, were sent to Russian for restoration. The fighter's salvageable parts were retained, while missing or heavily-damaged components were created by Russian craftsmen in order to make the planes flyable again. By the late 1990s, the trio of aircraft was back in the United States. In order to operate dependably, each aircraft was fitted with a specially-modified Pratt & Whitney R-1830 radial engine. The engines contained a mixture of components in order to be as compact as possible and fit in a standard A6M cowling. The FHC Zero has two paint schemes in one. The plane came from the Mitsubishi factory overall "olive green." Near Rabaul, the 251st Kokutai added the plane to its roster. But times were rough in the Pacific for a vulnerable Zero ... American fighters and bombers were blasting them, often simply parked on the ground, as fast as they could find them. The Japanese fighter planes were easy to spot covered in that light green color—they stuck out amid the darker green island vegetation. Orders came down to paint the upper surfaces of the planes a darker green, to make them blend in. Ground crews got to interpret the order any way they saw fit. Some planes received overall sloppy coats of green, streaks, spots, dots, etc. One strain of 251st planes were covered with a striking series of tiger stripes. Ours paint scheme was part of that batch.