Curtiss SB2C Helldiver wreckage found in Oregon's woods.
On Mar 30, 8:13*am, "Jim H." wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:15*pm, Matt Wiser wrote:
There was another name that pilots called the aircraft: "Son of a
Bitch, 2nd Class." The -1 version was the worst, but the -3 onward
handled very well.
I saw a passage in Hugh Ambrose's "The Pacific" where he quoted a Navy
flier who flew both the 'Speedy B' and SB2C. After transitioning from
SBD's, he felt that the SB2C flew 'more like a brick than an airplane'
or words to that effect. *Dunno which dash number he flew, but the
book mentioned a four-bladed prop.
Jim H.
That would be the -3 onward.
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