Warbird Information Exchange

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY PHOTOS OF THE TBMS THAT OPERATED OUT OF SALT LAKE CITY IN THE LATE 60S AND EARLY 70S?THE COMPANY WAS AREIAL APPLICATORS THEY WERE BLACK WITH ORANGE WINGS.HOW MANY OF THEM ARE STILL FLYING?A COLLECTION OF THE TBM TANKER FLEET WOULD MAKE FOR AN EXCELLENT BOOK WITH UPDATES TO TODAYS SURVIVORS. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO SHARE YOU PHOTOS I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM .THANKS MIKE

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IF YOU CAN FIND IT WE CAN FIX IT

This is a link to my vintage TBM page. Two of the TBM's I have photos of sound familiar but at the time we photographed them they were with Hicks and Lawrence in Ontario, Canada. Both of these aircraft are still with us. Tom Duffy owns one and the other is in a museum in Washington State if I remember right.

Tom Duffy's aircraft.


Vintage TBM Gallery

http://www.airic.ca/html/tbm_avengers.html

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

That TBM, that Pardu's old airplane...........N88HP?? I got a ride in it back in the 90's when it was at the anniversary of Flt 19 in Ft Lauderdale. My father organized the show and had 7 TBM's there. Early one morning we went to the airport and I got to ride in the back in a flt of 2. I got pics of looking up at the condos/hotels from the water heading north from Miami Beach............was awsome, I consider it better than my P-51 ride.

If I remember right, some of them got some flak from the FAA. Seems that all 7 were out over the water doing a photo shoot and there was a "fat" oil tanker anchored off shore waiting to get into port everglades. So from what I heard, it took some "torpedo" hits and was considered sunk back at the bar.
Guess I need to get a community site so I can post pics.

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

HI,
Try here,
http://www.scalefirebombers.com/avenger31.html

http://www.scalefirebombers.com/avenger32.html

http://www.scalefirebombers.com/avenger67.html

Home Page... click on Aircraft.

http://www.scalefirebombers.com/index2.html

Don

THANK YOU!!! THE LINKS ARE GREAT,I MISS THOSE DAYS WE WOULD SEE THEM FLY ALL SUMMER.I THINK THATS WERE I GOT THE BUG!MIKE

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Call me crazy, but I think that after a few more decades, the configurations/paint schemes utilized by some of these planes during their immediate post-war working lives may be nearly as popular on the vintage/warbird scene as the many WWII schemes applied to them today. I'll admit most of the unique and one-off modified airframes from that period were downright ugly, but a few, like the TBM above, are intriguing in their own way.

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Rob Mears
'Surviving Corsairs' Historian
robcmears@yahoo.com
http://www.robmears.com

If you look at the site as posted you can see my Avenger in her fire bomber working "clothes" as Tanker 58.....I don't now how to copy and paste here!