It was known as the “Flying Dorito,” and it looked more like something from H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds than it did a ...

A detailed profile of TBM-3E Avenger BuNo 53575, a WWII torpedo bomber that later served as a firefighter before restoration ...

Clifford Klein, a turret gunner on an Avenger bomber during World War II, will likely take his last ride in one of those aircraft over his former Blasdell home later this week, a few days before his ...

Click to open image viewer. During the late 1930s the U.S. Navy began to modernize its fleet of carrier aircraft. By the end of the decade, all metal monoplane fighters, dive bombers and torpedo ...