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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: How Not to Build a Plane
The Helldiver’s poor manufacturing was a superficial problem relative to its fundamentally flawed design. The aircraft was ...
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A nearly intact Curtiss SB2C-1C Helldiver rests just outside Maalaea Harbor. The plane crash-landed after a training exercise gone wrong in 1944, though both the pilot and radio operator emerged ...
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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: How Not to Build a Plane
Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built ... and the ire of pilots and aircraft commanders alike. The Helldiver was much larger than the Dauntless, and improved, in theory ...