The National Interest on MSN6 天
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 ...
The National Interest6 天
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: How Not to Build a Plane
Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report from the waste-focused Truman Committee and ...
The Maui News7 年
Maui surrounded by history
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 ...