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Descended from the F4F Wildcat, the Grumman F6F Hellcat came into service with the Pacific Fleet mid 1943, and over the next two years proved to be the most successful aircraft in naval history - with over 5,000 air-to-air kills in the Pacific, and the highest kill ratio of any …
Descended from the F4F Wildcat (and sometimes called the Wildcat's "big brother"), the Grumman F6F Hellcat debuted with the Pacific Fleet in mid-1943 and soon was taking on Japanese Zero fighters. Over the next two years, the Hellcat proved to be the most successful fighter airc…
Even before there were runways, the area south of the city of Seattle was Washington's aviation hub. Charles Hamilton, a daredevil dubbed "Crazy Man of the Air," became the first flyer in the state when he coaxed his Curtiss biplane into the sky over Meadows Racetrack in 1910. H…