Our local modelling club, the ACT Scale Modellers' Society, has its annual exhibition in November and one theme is the 75th anniversary of 1942. I'm contributing a number of 1/72 models of aircraft of the Battle of Midway but have problems finding some information on the very early B-26s and...
It's the event we will be talking about for a long time: The Arsenal of Democracy fly over. As the Grumman formation turned into over the Lincoln Memorial the TBM Avenger peeled off. They made and emergency landing at Regan National Airport (DCA). We later learned that it was a hydraulic leak...
Would Grumman's resources have been better spent designing and manufacturing the replacement for the SBD Dauntless?
Curtiss did not handle the SB2C Helldiver project well.
Grumman began development of the Avenger two years later that Curtiss began the Helldiver, yet the Avenger entered...
I just scanned this manual.
PILOT'S HANDBOOK
MODEL TBF-1 AIRPLANE
MODEL TBM-1 AIRPLANE
CONTRACT NO. LL-91367
CONTRACT NO. 98837
ENGINE NO. R-2600-8 OR R-2600-8A
AVENGER 1
RELEASED BY' THE BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS NAVY DEPARTMENT
It is about 114 pages, including two color line drawings at...
Hello gentlemen,
Would anyone be able to tell me; How many and where the plates are located on a ww2 USN Avenger which would detail the Aircrafts Buno Number?
Thanks lads
What if...
The Army tried Dauntlesses and Helldivers but not Avengers.
Think of a Grumman Avenger with an R-2800 instead of R-2600 plus its armament of 4 500 pounders, 8 rockets and two 20mm in the wings like the TBF-1C and consider the power operated .50 turret.
What if the 9th AF had...