2021年4月9日 · The Douglas TBD-1 Devastator was the frontline US Navy Torpedo Bomber in December 1941. It took the brunt of the fighting until Midway.

2024年11月28日 · Originating out of a requirement initiated by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in early 1934 for a new carrier-based torpedo plane, the Douglas XTBD-1 prevailed over entries by Great Lakes...

Douglas TBD-1 Devastator from the USS Enterprise CV-6 heading out for a raid on Wake Island on February 1942. Near the beginning of the new decade (1940), naval intelligence indicated the TBD might be losing its combat edge to foreign designs and wheels were set in (slow) motion to find a replacement.

The Douglas TBD-1 Devastator was the frontline US Navy Torpedo Bomber in December 1941. It took the brunt of the fighting until Midway.

The TBD-1 was a large single-engine aircraft with a large, distinctive “greenhouse” canopy. The wings folded upward for carrier stowage. The aircraft had a top speed of 206 miles per hour, and a range of 450 nautical miles with a torpedo or 900 nautical miles with a 1,000-pound bomb.

2022年3月31日 · In Santa Monica, Donald Douglas’ design team got to work. The result was the XTBD-1 (Experi­mental Torpedo Bomber, Douglas), a three-seat, all-metal monoplane with hydraulic folding wings and semi-retractable landing gear behind an …

2022年1月28日 · The Douglas TBD Devastator was classified as a torpedo bomber and served in the early half of World War 2 with the United States Navy. At the time of its inception, the TBD Devastator fielded such technology that it was deemed the most advanced aircraft of its kind anywhere in the world.

Douglas TBD-1 Devastator drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, October 20, 1941. This plane is aircraft number 6-T-4 of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6).

The Douglas TBD-1 was the Navy's first widely-used monoplane shipboard plane. Designed to carry a heavy torpedo below the fuselage, it was necessarily a large aircraft and its 900-horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-1830 "Twin Wasp" radial engine could drive it to a maximum speed of slightly over 200 miles per hour.

The Douglas TBD-1 was the Navy's first widely-used monoplane shipboard plane. Designed to carry a heavy torpedo below the fuselage, it was necessarily a large aircraft and its 900-horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-1830 "Twin Wasp" radial engine could drive it to a maximum speed of slightly over 200 miles per hour.