Parkzone F4F Wildcat BNF

PKZ1980 F4F Wildcat BNF

ParkZone brings the legendary F4F Wildcat to life with this great flying, generously sized electric warbird.

Constructed from highly durable and lightweight Z-foam the model is easily hand launched and can be safely landed back on its “belly” with minimum risk of damage.

Modeled after an F4F flown by Lieutenant Commander Edward “Butch” O’Hare – the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace, ParkZone’s F4F Wildcat is a four-channel semi-scale replica of this famous WWII warbird and features a wealth of scale detail. Details featured include moulded panel lines and hatches, simulated retracted landing gear and wheels tucked into the fuselage, a hand-painted pilot figure, realistic classic blue trim paint scheme with red striped rudder and simulated engine cylinders and cowl flaps.

The model comes with a powerful 480 BL outrunner motor and fully proportional four channel control and thanks to this combination the flight performance of the Wildcat is very impressive indeed. Comfortably within it’s performance envelope fall all of the typical warbird manoeuvres such as Victory rolls, Cuban-8s, Immelman, turns and it handles them all with ease whilst still possessing very smooth all round flight characteristics.

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To get the Plug-N-Play version flight ready and in the air ready to fly in all you need is a 4-channel full range transmitter and receiver, a 3S 11.1V 1300mAh-2200mAh Li-Po battery, and a 3S Li-Po charger, the servos, speed controller (ESC) and motor come pre-installed.

Key Features
Ready to fly in minutes
Powerful 480-size 960Kv brushless outrunner motor installed
Full 4-channel control – throttle, aileron, elevator and rudder
Dual aileron servos for precise control
Durable and lightweight Z-Foam™ construction
Two-piece plug-in wing
Battery compartment accommodates most 1300mAh–2100mAh LiPo packs

The Grumman F4F Wildcat

The Grumman F4F Wildcat was Grumman's first monoplane and whist not perfect it provided outstanding service with both the American and British Navy’s during World War Two.

This American fighter was called the Martlet by the Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm and scored its first combat victory on Christmas Day 1940, when a land-based Martlet destroyed a Junkers Ju 88 bomber over the Scapa Flow naval base.

Uniquely this was the first combat victory by a US-built fighter in British service in World War Two.

Initially powered by a 1,050 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-66 Twin Wasp engine, the XF4F-2 (Grumman G-18) had a gross weight of 5,535 lb and a design maximum speed of 290 mph. It was a mid-wing all-metal monoplane with an armament of two 0.50 calibre guns in the fuselage and provision

for two more in the wings, or two 100 lb bombs beneath the wings.

The main wheels of the somewhat narrow undercarriage retracted into the fuselage in typical Grumman fashion and the first flights of what was to become a superb fighter aircraft was made from the Grumman Long Island factory at Bethpage on 2 September, 1937.

When America entered World War the Wildcat was the US Navy’s main shipboard fighter and whilst the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M (Zero) out performed it, the F4F was well-armed and reliable and ideally suited to carrier operation, although it was probably easier to land on a runway than a heaving carrier deck!

Production continued to the end of the war, by which time 7,815 Wildcats had been built and it is thought that there are as many as 18 airworthy examples remaining throughout the world today.