Guest Chainsaw Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 What is your favourite WW2 carrier based dive bomber? List your reasons. Your fav photo of this plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OzChris Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 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 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siznaudin Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHKDK Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siznaudin Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHKDK Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siznaudin Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 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 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siznaudin Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Duh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHKDK Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siznaudin Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Aarrgh! Temporary brain fade: I was visualising the Shagbat and typing Stringbag. Sorry Martyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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