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glider90
07-25-2011, 12:35 PM
I saw a shirt being sold this year that (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.220879651281259.48241.117868041582421#!/photo.php?fbid=220881874614370&set=a.220879651281259.48241.117868041582421&type=1&theater) shows the four grumman cats (Wild, Hell, Tiger, Bear) and the F9F. Is there a plan to do a formation flight of them all during one of the airshows?
~Jim

Hal Bryan
07-25-2011, 01:04 PM
The design for this shirt was more figurative than literal - I don't think anyone actually has a flying Panther at this point. However, there's already a Tigercat and a Bearcat on the field, and we almost always see a couple of Wildcats and possibly a Hellcat, so you can bet we'll try to get them all in the air together at some point!

glider90
07-25-2011, 01:55 PM
Yea, I guess it has been some years since the Cavanaugh F9F last flew. At any rate I firmly believe there will be enough of the propped cats on hand to do a 4-ship Grumman Cats formation. I k
now Kalamazoo was one of the only places to ever pull this off, I would sure love to see it this year in Oshkosh.

Justin
10-21-2011, 09:31 PM
Kalamazoo was able to have 6 of the cats do a formation in 93, Wildcat, Hellcat, Bearcat, Tigercat, Panther and Tomcat...That was a great show...and a great formation to perform the missing man with....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GJ_1BYVf-o


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