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Description
| Manufacturer: | Interstate | |
| Base model: | TDR | |
| Designation: | TDR | |
| Version: | -1 | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1942-1946 | |
| Basic role: | Target Drone | |
| Crew: | 0 | |
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Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| National Museum of Naval Aviation | NAS Pensacola | Florida |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Cdr Joe Brewer Pensacola, FL | I regularly visit the museum in at NAS Pensacola, and today saw the TDR-1 hanging in the overhead. It is in splended shape. I did not know about the TDR-1. However, My Dad was involved in their RC work following a combat tour in the Pacific flying the F4F of of the old Lexington.. He was stationed at NAS Clinton, OK where they were doing a lot of work in Travers City with the drones. There were lots of secrets in those days. Later we were stationed at NAS Santa Ana, CA, where the TD2C and F6Fs were configured as drones and launched as target drones from the palisades on the coast.
Later we were stationed at NAAS Ream field Imperial Beach, CA where they were configuring PB4Y2s as drones for live targets. Along with the other F6Fs as chase planes they also used the two seat F7F tiger cat as a chase plans. They tried the F8F too but it was to ot to handle, let alone serving as a chase plane. 03/31/2009 @ 18:03 [ref: 24056] |
| Joni Osterhout DeKalb, IL | My father, James R. Walker worked during WWII at the Interstate Plant in DeKalb, Illinois. I have two old pictures of the men at work there. Jim died recently and I have been working on a tribute for him. It took some time to find out from this site that they produced unmanned drones TDR-1, or radio controlled aircraft. My mother recalls this secretive operation and how at the ammoucement of the end of WWII the project ended abruptly and all the employees were let go and sent home from a conference in downtown Chicago.
I noticed in your recent correspondence a man named Richard Campbell wrote in 12/01/2004@18:15(ref.8759) Perhaps he would be interested in a copy of the pictures I have? Please contact me if you can help. Dick Campbell was 88 years old when he communicated with you in 2004. My father was 92 when he died, October 9, 2008. Thank You for your time, Joni Osterhout email: JONI8865@msn.com 11/20/2008 @ 05:14 [ref: 23108] |
| Tom Gillespie , TX | Stag One was commissioned in Clinton, Okla. I was in the oufit as a ART. We went from there to Traverse City, Mich. and then to Monterrey , Ca. and then to Banika north of Guadacanal. 05/22/2008 @ 21:46 [ref: 20990] |
| Nels Anderson Jamestown, NY | Hi, I work in an old hangar that I suspect to have produced the TDR1. The building has a basement that is unreachable from the current ground floor. All of what seem to be entrances are blocked off. I know that this was a secretive project, but I also know the owner of the building. If anyone has any photos of the building at 2855 Girts rd. Jamestown NY, or if anyone knows any history on the building or the TDR1 project that took place there please let me know. Thanks. 01/06/2008 @ 19:19 [ref: 19181] |
| Ron Ciura Buffalo, NY | There is a small display of the TDR-1 in
Jamestown-Chatauqua Co. Airport . 12/14/2007 @ 06:11 [ref: 18913] |
| Walter Kilbourne Bethesda, MD | My father was President of American Aviation in Jamestown NY and manufactured the TDR-1. It was a somewhat secrete project. Other companies also were producing the plane which I never knew until recently. The test pilot, Red Skelton, taught me to fly but not in the TDR-1 04/12/2007 @ 07:55 [ref: 16165] |
| Albert deManigold TRAVERSE CITY, MI | My Uncle EARL MANIGOLD was with STAG ONE when it was formed around 1942here in Taverse City they practiced out here in Grand Traverse Bay. I have pic's of the guys while they drank beer at Sleders Tavern IN TRAVERSE, I also have 2 offical photogarphs ofthe group plus photos while they were in the south pacific my e mail is. manigold10@aol.com 03/15/2007 @ 09:42 [ref: 15899] |
| devin meriam Columbus, OH | Today I visited the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, and among the outstanding collection of aircraft presented there, I was most fascinated to see a TDR-1 hanging from the ceiling! I'd never heard of this Navy UAV, a type used in combat against the Imperial Japanese during WWII. These lean, pilotless warbirds were guided by R/C operators aboard Avenger torpedo bombers. A sign said that in one operation in October 1944, 46 were launched against enemy targets in the Solomons but only 18 struck home. The program was cancelled the next day.
As UAVs become increasingly relied upon by our military, the history of the Navy's TDR-1 will increase in significance. 01/08/2006 @ 20:30 [ref: 12104] |
| walter kilbourne Bethesda, MD | my e mail is now chhco@comcast.net 11/01/2005 @ 09:11 [ref: 11622] |
| Norman Tengstrom Marco Island, FL | Re visit the website of Special Task Air Group One, www.stagone.org This will update you on the use of the TDR-1 dyring WW II, Most recent addition is the excellent article, published in 2/05 USNI Proceedings, Command Break by Nick Sparks.Website has many pictures. 07/21/2005 @ 09:54 [ref: 10802] |
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