TBM / TBF Avengers

Jay Beckman · November 15, 2009, 10:52:54 PM

From Copperstate 2008:

Dave S. · December 14, 2009, 04:42:10 PM

Caught this guy at Oshkosh.

Joe Copalman · December 14, 2009, 04:56:13 PM

Killer shot Dave. Love the scheme on that one.

Joe Copalman · January 29, 2011, 09:08:13 PM

TBM participating in the fly-over during Eddie Packard's memorial service at Falcon Field.

Jay Beckman · January 30, 2011, 05:38:44 PM

Beautiful quality of light. Did you gents get Bearcat and Ponies as expected?

Joe Copalman · January 30, 2011, 05:48:29 PM

Yup. Plus three T-6s and the Spit.

Jeff D. Welker · January 30, 2011, 06:03:05 PM

Joe - great photo. You definitely chose a better location than Paul and I.

Joe Copalman · January 30, 2011, 06:45:00 PM

I haven't posted the story about the terribly unpleasant experience I had from this spot with an off-duty Boeing security officer yet. Imagine a sloppy-looking guy in civilian street clothes walking up and telling you you couldn't take photos on public property. At least you and Paul dodged that bullet (somewhat literally - he had a loaded handgun on the passenger seat of his vehicle).

Dave S. · January 31, 2011, 10:29:55 AM

Short Final...

wingsnstuff · January 31, 2011, 10:53:53 AM

LSO/Paddles View. Nice shot Dave

Dave S. · January 31, 2011, 10:56:04 AM

Any Paddles that's sharing a centerline with an incoming aircraft had better be jumping for that safety net!

wingsnstuff · January 31, 2011, 11:10:06 AM

Standing on the LSO platform on a CVE and it feels like standing on the centerline as these guys land. The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola has a CVE flight deck with island and an Corsair suspended as if landing and when you stand on the LSO platform it looks like the prop edge and wing are going to decapitate you. The old straight deck carriers we're that big and the CVEs were down right small.

Joe Copalman · January 31, 2011, 11:17:28 AM

Beautiful shot Dave. Been wondering how you did at the approach end. Looks like you did rather well.

wingsnstuff · January 31, 2011, 11:38:14 AM

Dave

Here's a link to a typical CVE with Avengers on-board. This is the CVE-122 Palau (My Dad was on CVE-91 Makassar Strait). You can see that three Avengers with folded wings takes up most of the flight deck width. With unfolded wings, there's only room for one and the LSO platform just to the right of the Avenger spotted on the Port Stern side of the flight deck shows how close they actually were on these escort carriers.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/0312204.jpg

Paul Dumm · February 05, 2011, 01:23:00 PM

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