Plane of the Week: Grumman TBF Avenger

Grumman Avengers assemble!  While it was no bombshell in terms of its beauty, don't let that fool you: despite its rather homely looks, this torpedo bomber saw some major wins. During its operational use during WWII, nearly 10,000 of them were produced. Who's the beauty queen now?  Design and Development At a brief point in aviation history, the Douglas [...]

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Before They Were Presidents of the United States of America, They Were Pilots

Franklin D. Roosevelt has the distinction of being the first US president to ever fly in an aircraft, while Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to travel in an airplane with the designation Air Force One. It was Theodore Roosevelt, however, who was the first [former] president to ever fly in an aircraft in October [...]

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