Happy Memorial day. Also please read the take off instructions detailed below
The Grumman F3F was the last American biplane fighter aircraft delivered to the United States Navy (indeed, the last biplane fighter delivered to any American military air arm), and served between the wars. Designed as an improvement on the single-seat F2F, it entered service in 1936. It was retired from front line squadrons at the end of 1941 before it could serve in World War II, and was first replaced by the Brewster F2A Buffalo. The F3F which inherited the Leroy Grumman-designed retractable main landing gear configuration first used on the Grumman FF served as the basis for a biplane design ultimately developed into the much more successful F4F Wildcat.
Takeoff instruction
1. push throttle to full throttle and leave elevator in a neutral position
2. wait 2 Mississippi. (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi) while the plane accelerates
3. pull up elevator
4. climb out and pull the retracts up. keeping the wings level as needed
Controls
1-4 normal
Dualrates switch = bomb drop
Knob = smoke
Retract switch = Retracts
3 pos switch away = canopy open and camera zoom out
middle = canopy closed camera normal flying
towards = guns firing camera zoomed in on sight
Credits
Plane minus engine and pilot figure Legoman
engine technoid with some tinkering legoman
pilot off the parts repository origionally by Boof69 some tinkering legoman
CS, map, collison, pivots etc. by legoman
The Grumman F3F was the last American biplane fighter aircraft delivered to the United States Navy (indeed, the last biplane fighter delivered to any American military air arm), and served between the wars. Designed as an improvement on the single-seat F2F, it entered service in 1936. It was retired from front line squadrons at the end of 1941 before it could serve in World War II, and was first replaced by the Brewster F2A Buffalo. The F3F which inherited the Leroy Grumman-designed retractable main landing gear configuration first used on the Grumman FF served as the basis for a biplane design ultimately developed into the much more successful F4F Wildcat.
Takeoff instruction
1. push throttle to full throttle and leave elevator in a neutral position
2. wait 2 Mississippi. (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi) while the plane accelerates
3. pull up elevator
4. climb out and pull the retracts up. keeping the wings level as needed
Controls
1-4 normal
Dualrates switch = bomb drop
Knob = smoke
Retract switch = Retracts
3 pos switch away = canopy open and camera zoom out
middle = canopy closed camera normal flying
towards = guns firing camera zoomed in on sight
Credits
Plane minus engine and pilot figure Legoman
engine technoid with some tinkering legoman
pilot off the parts repository origionally by Boof69 some tinkering legoman
CS, map, collison, pivots etc. by legoman
