The valve covers are from the Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye while the valve train, valves, locks and retainers are pulled from the Challenger SRT Demon.
It's not a real, vintage Hellcat that I'm building, but a 1/72-scale plastic model airplane designed to be glued together by there's no other way to say this children.
The 1,000-plus horsepower HellScat, a play on the words "Hellcat" and "Scat Pack," promises to have more power than Dodge's new Demon...all to salute the legacy of Dodge's late-1960s and early 1970s Scat Pack club.
As the leader of Flight Test, Trapnell left his largest mark on the war in the critical role he played in developing the Navy's two preeminent World War Il-era fighters--the Chance Vought F4U Corsair and Grumman F6F Hellcat.
He played a key role in the refinement of two aircraft that would prove crucial in the naval air war against Japan--the Corsair and the Hellcat. He was the first U.S.