David Tallichet TBM Avengers

[Simon Beck]

This might be a long shot but does anyone have
any info on the Grumman Avengers owned by
David Tallichet (Yesterday's Air Force), was it up
to four aircraft?

S. Beck

[Todd Hackbarth]

From the following WIX thread started 12 Feb 2008:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... a2b62c8125

Grumman

TBM-3E BuNo 69374
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 69374.html

TBM-3S BuNo 53804 YAF
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 53804.html

TBM-3E BuNo 91450
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 91450.html

[Ryan Keough]

Could this be the fourth even though Tallichet had it in the 90's?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 53454.html

[Simon Beck]

Thanks for the links and info on these aircraft,
thats helped a lot.
S. Beck

[O.P.]

Just piling on here, and being a little lazy I guess, but.....

Anyone got the numbers of SBD's and P-39's that might still be held in his collection?

[Simon Beck]

Another Tallichet Avenger I've found is BuNo.53229
which was N7236C.
It was displayed outside a restaurant in Florida from
1976.

Does anyone have a 1970's still of N9710Z?
S. Beck

[Pogo]

Since a bunch of TBM nuts are checkin' this thread, I'll see if I can sneak in a little question I've been wondering about forever. In short, the turret ... howzit work? Every time I study pictures or models it appears to have no side-to-side capability, just up-and-down. But surely it's twirly. Would someone please tell me a nice little story about how the TBM turret works pretty please? And how does the guy get in and out?

I feel so silly, but this is one bird I just have hardly any experience with.

[Simon Beck]

The gunner climbs in a small door on the starboard side of the
fuselage and then climbs into the turret from the bottom.
To exit the turret in an emergency, the port side flat-glass
comes off in one section so the guner can jump out.
This can be seen in the 1943 film "A Wing and a Prayer"
starring Dana Andrews.

The turret of course does turn from side to side but yes I've
never seen any real stills of this either. But my 1:48 scale
model Avenger has a twirly turret so....
I don't know if it's powered or not, does anyone else know?

As a point of interest, actor Paul Newman was an Avenger
gunner.

S.Beck

[Ryan Keough]

The turret has side-to-side turn capability and can be operated electrically or (rather difficultly) mechanically via a hand crank.

There are some visuals available at: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/NA ... round.html

There aren't any photos of the turret turned though.