This Hellcat Novice Lost Control — Then Became Feared by the Enemy
Автор: WW2 Frontliner
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May 1944. The skies over the Pacific. Ensign Elias Thorne, a novice pilot with "heavy hands," finds himself in the cockpit of the F6F Hellcat—an aircraft notorious for its tank-like weight and lack of finesse. In his first combat patrol, panic strikes. With a Japanese Zero glued to his tail, Thorne stomps the wrong rudder pedal, crossing the controls in a maneuver that should be fatal.
But the Hellcat doesn't spin. Instead, the massive fuselage acts like a barn door in the wind, slamming the plane into a violent, sideways skid. The enemy pilot, baffled by the sudden deceleration, overshoots into Thorne's gunsights.
What started as a rookie mistake becomes a deadly new doctrine. This is the untold story of the "Barn Door" maneuver—how one pilot turned the Hellcat's greatest weakness into a tactical weapon, becoming the "Drunken Demon" that terrified the Japanese Navy from Saipan to the Philippines.
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