Warbird Information Exchange

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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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

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.

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

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.

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