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Popular Science, September 2009, page 92.
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Following World War II, fighter jets were converted to take radio-control orders from a mother plane packed to the brim with electronics. The fastest jets in the U.S. at the time, Hellcats [above] responded to various frequencies commanding them to dive, climb or turn.
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August 13th, 2009, 06:47 PM
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I wonder how well they performed and how far they could get from the controlling aircraft?
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August 13th, 2009, 08:40 PM
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What I was chuckling about was the fact that Hellcats were "jets". 
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A small number of Hellcats were converted in Drone F6F-3K by installing radio control equipment and were used during A bomb testing in Bikini islands to fly through a radio active cloud and later in Korea as flying bomb guided on enemy bridges at the North. These were after the war used as Flying target.
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Hmm. Jet, huh? I suppose the propeller was camoflage?
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Yeah, yeah, ya'll can have a field day with me for missing that little smidgen of inportant information. The Helcats had that radial induction jet engines, right? 
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What I was chuckling about was the fact that Hellcats were "jets".
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Hmm. Jet, huh? I suppose the propeller was camoflage?
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Re: I didn not know that!
Hey guys !
Just tid bit, There was an aircraft that had both a radial engine and a general electric I-16 turbojet engine. The Ryan Model 28 FR-1 Fireball. Navy pilots used to love to pull up to an unsuspecting aircraft, shut down the radial engine and pull away at a very fast pace.
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