![]() They swam to shore and hitch-hiked back the base. The engine quit and the pilot ditched the plane in Lake Otay. My Uncle, who was actually in the Army, talked his way into a ride in the backseat of an SB2C-4 that was going on a practice bombing mission shortly after WWII at ake Otay in San Diego. © Most Helldivers had two 20mm cannon in the wings andĢ x 20mm machine-guns, 1 x 12.7mm machine-guns, 900kg of bombs, 8 missiles These were produced as SBW and SBF respectively. To supplement Curtiss production, Helldiver contracts were also placed with the Canadian Car and Foundry Company and Fairchild Aircraft, which were terminated in 1945. The SB2C-4 and SB2C-5, more than 3,000 of which were built, were developments of the SB2C-3 with perforated wing flaps and under-wing bomb racks under the outer wings for eight 115mm rockets. Following the experimental XSB2C-2 long-range reconnaissance-bomber seaplane version, delivered in 1943, 1,112 examples of the SB2C-3 were produced with 1,416kW R-2600-20 engines and Curtiss Electric four-bladed propellers. Armament consisted of four 12.7mm machine-guns in the wings and one on a hydraulic mounting in the rear cockpit. ![]() This version, 978 of which were built by Curtiss, was powered by a 1,267kW Wright R-2600-8 engine driving a three-bladed Curtiss Electric constant-speed propeller. From that date until November 1943 (when the Helldiver first went into action in the Pacific theatre of war) more than 880 design changes were made, some of which were part of the Army-Navy standardisation programme to permit the production of an Army version of the Helldiver as the A-25, which later served with the Marine Corps.Īs noted above, the first production version was the SB2G-1 (A-25). ![]() Armour, self-sealing tanks, protected fuel and oil lines, increased armament, a lengthened fuselage and a completely new tail unit with greatly enlarged fixed and moveable surfaces were incorporated in the production SB2C-1, the first of which flew in June 1942. From that date the Helldiver two-seat carrier-borne dive bomber was the subject of constant development. The experimental contract for the Helldiver was awarded by the US Navy on and the prototype XSB2C-1 first flew on 18 December 1940, although contemporary reports suggest the first flight was made in the previous month.
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