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Grumman Avenger ideas and inspiration
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: Daryl J. on September 01, 2012, 10:13:58 AM ---Biplane, like the F3F is to the F4F
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The Big Gimper:
I have plans so build a 1/72 USAAF A-32A Thrush. A peer to the A-25A Shrike.
OD and Grey.
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: upnorth on September 01, 2012, 11:17:54 PM ---Rip out all the naval gear, ventral gun and reduce the radio equipment to bare minimum essentials (perhaps to the point where it could get by with a crew of two).
After that; rig the torpedo bay to take conventional bombs, put a couple of 20 mm cannons in each wing, plug in an R-2800 and slap on some SEAC roundels and send her hunting inland.
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Well the Avenger did actually carry conventional bombs in real life:
+ see here
Developing the idea further though, what about a Grumman Avenger in Armée de l'Air markings in a scenario where France didn't fall. Maybe have the Avenger operating in a kind of Fairey Battle tupe function?
GTX_Admin:
jcf:
Most of the torpedo bombers of the period also functioned as level bombers.
The R-2800 was proposed for the TBM-3, they went for the 1,900 hp R2600-20 instead.
Two aircraft were converted to the XTBM-5 configuration, a faired ventral step, removal
of the turret and conversion to two-seat configuration with twin-.30s on flexible mount
were among the changes.
Bu No 00550 was modified into a single-seater in July 1942.
The G-56 was a proposal for a developed Avenger with Martin turret and R-2800, one aircraft was
converted to test the turret. The twin-.50s were found to have a lower effective rate of fire than the
single gun turret due to the guns having to interrupted twice as often to clear the tail.
The PZL P.46 Sum has always reminded me of fixed gear, twin-tail Avenger.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/pzl46.html
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