Today — the Martin AM-1 Mauler: In 1943 the Navy issued a requirement for a new series of carrier-based attack aircraft, looking to combine the heretofore separate missions of scout/dive bomber and torpedo bomber. The venerable Dauntless had been replaced by the problematic Curtis Helldiver and the TBF/M Avenger had assumed the torpedo and bomber…
So it’s early — it is Friday somewhere else in the world… And for you DC Tailhookers, if you missed FCLP’s today, well, your loss! Jump in the wayback machine and set the dial for 1948… 1948 and the Navy was in trouble.Barely three years previous the US Navy was victoriously anchored in Tokyo Bay…
Well, we have Friday Musings , Fullbore Fridays, Beer and Babes Fridays, so I guess it’s time to roll in with Flightdeck Fridays, presented herewith. What will one find? Well, it likely won’t be the usual stuff. Sorry, but they border on the overexposed anyway. Instead this will explore some of the lesser known or…
