Grumman Corporation
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Sep 14, 2026
Bobby Roast BeefHOST
Like there's space.
Bobby Roast BeefHOST
These dudes had this old Grumman up in the middle of the ramp, and the guy finally backs the truck down.
Bobby Roast BeefHOST
There was myself, another boat, and then another boat behind them coming in on a Friday afternoon at like 2:00 PM.
Bobby Roast BeefHOST
So I'm like, "All right.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Navy had a specification out for a new carrier fighter before Pearl Harbor.
Tail DraggerHOST
Grumman, the company on Long Island that had been building Navy fighters since nineteen thirty-one, was working on something called the F4F Wildcat's replacement.
Tail DraggerHOST
The prototype, the XF6F hyphen one, hadn't flown yet.
Tail DraggerHOST
The design was still being refined.
Tail DraggerHOST
You zoomed.
Tail DraggerHOST
You came back with altitude and energy, and you didn't let the fight slow down to where the Zero was comfortable.
Tail DraggerHOST
Grumman already knew most of what they needed, but this confirmation locked in the design philosophy for the Hellcat.
Tail DraggerHOST
The XF6F hyphen three, the version that would go into production, first flew on July thirtieth, nineteen forty-two.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
On 20 August, two squadrons of Marine Aircraft Group Mag-23 were launched from the escort carrier Long Island, CVE-1, located 200 miles southeast of Guadalcanal.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Captain John L. Smith led 19 Grumman F4-F4 Wildcats of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-223 onto Henderson's narrow runway.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Smith's fighters were followed by Major Richard C. Mangrum's Marine Scout Bombing Squadron, VMSB-232, with 12 Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless Dive Bombers.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
From this point of the campaign, the radio identification for Guadalcanal, Cactus, became increasingly synonymous with the island.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
Here's a lively piano session that really goes flying, flying like the Blue Angels.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
This album, Blue Angels, is named for and dedicated to the United States Navy flight demonstration team, a unit consisting of four formation flyers and two solo pilots flying the new Grumman F-11 F-1 Tiger.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
for a dozen years and before an estimated 35 million people, the Angels have, with a perfection that looks effortless to spectators, executed the most demanding low-level formation flying ever seen.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
From the ground, an article in the magazine Aviation Week noted, quote, the four airplanes seem to swing through their maneuvers so smoothly that it appears they are tied together, unquote.
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Frank VaccarelloHOST
And the airplanes have certainly changed along the way.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
They started with propeller-driven Hellcats and Bearcats before moving into jets in 1949.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
By the time this Blue Angels album came out in 1958, the team was flying the supersonic Grumman F-11, F-1 Tiger.
Frank VaccarelloHOST
And there's that great little connection to this record.
Darren PaltrowitzHOST
Nassau County? Bethpage is Nassau County.
Darren PaltrowitzHOST
A lot of stuff is like secretly ish film there at the Grumman studio.
Darren PaltrowitzHOST
Oh,
John Ross BowieGUEST
yeah.
John Ross BowieGUEST
Okay.
John Ross BowieGUEST
Yes, I've heard of the Grumman Studio.
John Ross BowieGUEST
Okay, that makes sense.
John Ross BowieGUEST
Is that the place where Kevin James would do stuff? Yeah, you're nodding.
speaker_2NARRATOR
NASA has its sights set on a moon landing by the end of the 1960s.
speaker_2NARRATOR
But Grumman Aerospace, while building the lunar landing module for Apollo 11, is also venturing into deep sea exploration.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Hearing of Picard's submarine, Grumman immediately agrees to finance construction.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Total cost, $2.5 million.
speaker_2NARRATOR
At
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speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The precision of the construction is fundamentally important to obtain a good dive and a good stability during the dive.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Each phase of construction is painstaking.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Picard's French-speaking team and Grumman's English-speaking engineers not only speak different languages, but use completely different measurement systems.
Jethro Gilligan TothHOST
[laughs]
Lindsay SchneblyHOST
... because the guy is a retired jet mechanic from Northrop Grumman, Grumman.
Lindsay SchneblyHOST
And he can quite literally fix absolutely anything.
Jethro Gilligan TothHOST
With gum and duct tape.
MagnumHOST
Hoagland was the science advisor to Walter Conkright and CBS News during the Apollo mission era.
MagnumHOST
He co-created the Pioneer plaque with Carl Sagan and Grumman Aerospace, the company that physically built the lunar module, hired him to write the moon section of the official Apollo press book.
MagnumHOST
Now, this is his background, but he has also been releasing controversial space conspiracies for decades.
MagnumHOST
Here are some of
SharonHOST
After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II, Bill returned home and used the GI Bill to continue his education.
StacyHOST
He went on to become a design engineer at Grumman, where he worked on the lunar module that helped make the Apollo missions possible.
SharonHOST
Incredible.
SharonHOST
Bill and his wife, Bernie, eventually settled in Farmingdale Village, where they raised their two children.
SharonHOST
And today, this proud veteran family man and former Grumman engineer continues to call Long Island home.
SharonHOST
What an incredible.
SharonHOST
So what a what an incredible life.
Jimmy WilliamsGUEST
And you're like, OK, I moved to Long Island when I was in middle school.
Jimmy WilliamsGUEST
I was right by Grumman.
Jimmy WilliamsGUEST
You see that get sold off and move.
Jimmy WilliamsGUEST
And what happens to a community when one industry or company is really keeping the community afloat? It's like, how do you diversify that to make sure that everyone can manufacture together? And then you can build that city from there.
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