TBM Avenger Start Up and Take Off from Hagerstown Regional Airport, May 27, 2014

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  • May 27, 2014 - See the start up and take off the National Capitol Squadron of the CAF 1945 Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N40402/Bu/Aer 91426. Col. John Fuentes, pilot.
    The TBM Avenger that has been housed with the Hagerstown Aviation Museum aircraft for the past year has flown off to it's new home with the National Capitol Squadron of the CAF in Culpeper, VA. The museum was honored to take the TBM "under it's wing" so that the final restoration work could be completed indoors. Our new friends Clifford Ellis and Bill Butler were an inspiration for the time and effort they put toward preparing the TBM for it's first flight. Congratulations to everyone involved with the TBM project over the years! You are commended for your efforts to preserve our aviation heritage! We look forward to seeing the TBM in the air for years to come.
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  • @lot2196
    @lot2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I was always amazed at the size of that plane for a single engine.

    • @Jpdt19
      @Jpdt19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ditto

    • @delten-eleven1910
      @delten-eleven1910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too as well as the A-1, huge single engined planes

  • @queserame
    @queserame 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Watching those wings slide back and come to position is an engineering marvel!

    • @dryan8377
      @dryan8377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed! The engineering from the 40's was totally epic. That was my favorite part!

    • @delten-eleven1910
      @delten-eleven1910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed, pretty ingenious for it's time; so good Grumman incorporated it to the E-2 Hawkeye/ Greyhound.

    • @steveperry1344
      @steveperry1344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i always thought they were moved manually by the deck hands.

    • @steveperry1344
      @steveperry1344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i stood next to an avenger at the collings museum in stow,ma. it is a very big and tall plane. it held 3 men and a torpedo.

    • @Hambone571
      @Hambone571 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@steveperry1344 Yep. Been up close to one also. They are large in size compared to any other of the day.

  • @mikem5043
    @mikem5043 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the ingenious wing folding mechanism on those Grummans

  • @timgraaff7551
    @timgraaff7551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My father flew Coursairs in WW2, so I have always been interested in those type of planes! Thanks great video!!

    • @NH2112
      @NH2112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tim Graaff You may like this, then, I took it when I worked at Portland (ME) Int’l Jetport. One of my all-time favorites ever since watching Black Sheep Squadron as a kid.
      th-cam.com/video/Zbvs0yh6ZG0/w-d-xo.html

    • @veng3r663
      @veng3r663 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NH2112 Bo Time Gaming & PhlyDaily have some pretty good TBF-1 Avenger gamer videos...
      th-cam.com/video/yGCDKyOgTOA/w-d-xo.html

  • @number8485
    @number8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just lovely to these guys airborne again. What they achieved and went through in the Pacific WW2 theatre defies belief.

  • @jbrummitt
    @jbrummitt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellent! I never get tired of this wonderful sound.

  • @rodbramsjr8823
    @rodbramsjr8823 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My grandpa was machinist at Grumman, these were engineering marvels

  • @ModelingSteelinHO
    @ModelingSteelinHO 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Congratulations on getting this ole girl back in the Air. She sounds great !

    • @guardsmansethlee3635
      @guardsmansethlee3635 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Low Budget HO Scale Modeling. Too true! What a gorgeous Plane! We need more of these old bird back in the air!

  • @dryan8377
    @dryan8377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video is amazing. Thank You!

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Open question: are there any external features to tell a TBF from a TBM, easily from a distance?

  • @brucebehner4142
    @brucebehner4142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just isn't the same without seeing those quads on the ball.

    • @samuelbennett1717
      @samuelbennett1717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you are referring to the ball turret there was only one 50 cal machine gun mounted there. Avengers never had a dual or quad mount. Early models had one .30 cal machine gun in the nose and a rear facing .30 cal machine gun that was operated by the radioman/bombardier. Later versions had .50cal machine guns one in each wing and the .30 cal machine gun in the nose was removed. Towards the end of the war the rear facing ventral machine gun was also removed because it was nearly useless.

  • @toyman9642
    @toyman9642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can't wait for the Avenger at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario taking flight. Should be soon.

  • @frankirvine316
    @frankirvine316 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your right about the wings✅

  • @MrJbonfilio
    @MrJbonfilio 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT AIRCRAFT

  • @mfk1673
    @mfk1673 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a beautiful aeroplane.

  • @claudedornier9858
    @claudedornier9858 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    best avenger video ever fantastic sound and beautiful looks *****

    • @MrJbonfilio
      @MrJbonfilio 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MY JOB 50 CAL TURRET GUNNER ON THE TBM AIRCREW JOHN USN

  • @cliphy88
    @cliphy88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I work at an aviation museum in NZ we have the same Avenger on display. Any chance you would allow us to license 1 minute or so of this awesome video? We are doing some educational content for kids. Museum is MOTAT in Auckland, NZ.

  • @SuperOldandSlow
    @SuperOldandSlow 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nothing like a buzzing prop and the snarl of the big radial that's spinning it.

  • @GVBiggs524
    @GVBiggs524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I noticed the chase plane took off with no flaps..

    • @FawfulDied
      @FawfulDied 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      SNJs and TBMs, and most Navy planes of the period, do not use flaps during takeoff with normal load. Flaps are only used during landing and when heavily loaded.

  • @nelsonrayon6281
    @nelsonrayon6281 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hermosa máquina saludos

  • @bobwalker5564
    @bobwalker5564 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥

  • @sfm337
    @sfm337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    first time remember seeing this gorgeous bird was a kid watching the movie "A Wing and a Prayer|

  • @lordofthemound3890
    @lordofthemound3890 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It dwarfs the Dauntless!

    • @johnanderson9494
      @johnanderson9494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It looks like a Harvard th-cam.com/video/Z5kfNTQA08U/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=HistoricalMachinesTV

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SNJ, T-6, Harvard, Texan......a great plane by any name.

  • @margraveofgadsden8997
    @margraveofgadsden8997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anyone recognize the aircraft markings? I think it’s from a mid 1945 escort carrier in the pacific theater, but I’m not sure.

  • @billyd7882
    @billyd7882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those radial engines are some cranky motors at cold start.

    • @valve0radio
      @valve0radio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes! all the more interesting to hear them coming to life! It may be a retarded spark for startup that gives that flat/ dry note.

  • @johnnylee5664
    @johnnylee5664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    老了 !( 這兩款式的飛機 另一架是T6教練機跟 地獄貓式戰鬥機 還是虎虎生風 的!)

  • @jameshood6167
    @jameshood6167 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    To real cousin who served his country John a Ellis love ya rob h

  • @clearcreek69
    @clearcreek69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t imagine being the tail gunner on the avenger. Scared Shitless for starters

    • @veng3r663
      @veng3r663 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was originally being slotted for that position on a B-52 crew when I entered the Air Farce back in the late 80's...

  • @user-or6ch7wd3n
    @user-or6ch7wd3n 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍😁

    • @jm3464
      @jm3464 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ابو ريتال الشمري سناب ntbm were used to drop borate slurry on forest fires in Alaska when laws firefighting back in 1960

  • @davidca96
    @davidca96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the Avengers, two gun positions and could carry 4 500lbs bombs or a big ol' torpedo.

  • @philmontejano5971
    @philmontejano5971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Former president George Bush flew an Avenger in WWIi.
    Youngest Naval aviator and got his Wings at age 18!
    RIP George

    • @cyvais
      @cyvais 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know that. I thought he only flew Hellcats.

  • @gerthezsgerthezs213
    @gerthezsgerthezs213 ปีที่แล้ว

    🎥🙌🏅

  • @wygtam
    @wygtam 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How were the folding wings actuated? Hydraulics. or something else?

  • @MavAuto-Pete
    @MavAuto-Pete 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:22 give it some throttle

  • @jonquaviouspringledingleiv9269
    @jonquaviouspringledingleiv9269 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The prop looks too small for that thing

  • @johnnylee5664
    @johnnylee5664 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    地獄貓海軍戰鬥機 ! ( 摺疊翼式的 )

  • @wottermelon1132
    @wottermelon1132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That guy walked a bit too close to the propeller for my liking!!

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gave him the thumbs up and then walked in front of the plane?

  • @user-nx2dr8dt2x
    @user-nx2dr8dt2x 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I guess you have to rub their bellies to wake them up

  • @The2001cobra
    @The2001cobra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    need some direct injection and some 02 sensors lets put a proper tune on that startup. Will never pass a cali smog test.... Hell lets put a hybrid 48v system on it

  • @samchin3812
    @samchin3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    george bush,s plane