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Guest Chainsaw
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What is your favourite WW2 carrier based dive bomber?

 

List your reasons.

 

Your fav photo of this plane.

 

 

Guest OzChris
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What is your favourite WW2 carrier based dive bomber?

Not many of them built, but my fave amongst so many is the Curtiss Helldiver

 

 

List your reasons.

Just love the gutsy name! HELL DIVER :biggrin:

 

Love the look of it, bi-plane with retract undercarriage, seriously awesome round engine 001_smile.gif.2cb759f06c4678ed4757932a99c02fa0.gif

 

Your fav photo of this plane.

I dont have any pics of this aircraft but here is one from Wikipedia:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/SBC_Helldiver.jpg

 

 

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I don't go much for these type of threads - as in "which was the best ...?", "which was the .....?" etc, as it usually boils down to a matter of subjective discussion rather than one of objectivity.

 

Having said that, I would suggest that the Douglas SBD Dauntless has to get a mention as being one of the pivotal aircraft involved in the Battle of Midway, which was such a turning point in the Pacific War. There you go...:rolleyes:

 

Dauntless001.jpg.ef567eec95f0a101659e377be3afd6fe.jpg

 

 

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Mine would be the Fairey Barracuda. I suppose a slight bias as it was British but with the T tail is was unusual for its day. It was reasonably successful but had some very nasty vices.

 

A couple of links below with some photos.

 

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Barracuda[/ame]

 

http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/bomber/barracuda/barracuda_en.htm

 

BTW who can name another T tailed British WW II aircraft?

 

 

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Mine would be the Fairey Barracuda. BTW who can name another T tailed British WW II aircraft?

Um - if the Barracuda qualifies as a T tail, does the Meteor make it too?

 

 

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Um - if the Barracuda qualifies as a T tail, does the Meteor make it too?

Yes I suppose the Meteor would, but it was not the aircraft I was thinking of though. The lower case "t" was used in those days instead of the modern capital "T".

 

 

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Hmmmm..... well I'll chuck the Stringbag in as another "lower case" job then, but you've got me wasting (my wife's term) my time among the bookshelves again, Martyn - welcome back !

 

 

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Yes the Westland Whirlwind, and it looks very different without the nose.

 

The Swordfish does have the conventional tail though unless yours if flying upside down!!!

 

 

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