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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 ...
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 ...