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06-09-2007, 12:58 PM
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Country:  | If you push the landing gear handle to the left and then up the gear will extend for landing on the Corsair. If pushed to the right and up the gear will extend in the dive brake mode. If the pilot tries the dive brakes above approx 255 knots the gear will dangle until a safe speed is reached. The dive brakes consist of the flat aluminum doors attached to the main gear struts. When the dive brake is used the tail wheel stays retracted. The aft main gear doors also remain retracted. The recorded percentage of hits on a 250 ft circle was only 7 % fewer than that of the SBD. | 
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06-09-2007, 02:44 PM
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Country:  | Blackburn Skua - just to be controversial. Mind you it did work, after a fashion. Blackburn Skua
.. but I must say that I think the Brits failed to take the Blackburns and the Boulton Pauls, get rid of their silly turrets (where appropriate), and make them into half decent carrier borne fighters.
Its not that far-fetched, and they were no good for the RAF after all.
Imagine if all the Defiants had been given even 2 or 4 fwd firing guns, dump the turret, and other Navalisation features like a landing hook ?
It would have really helped early on in the Atlantic when Sea Hurricanes were mostly knackered ex-RAF lash ups, or shot off Catapaults on a one way trip ! | |
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06-09-2007, 03:51 PM
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| I bet the Skua had a sterling combat record in the Pacific.
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06-10-2007, 06:56 AM
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Country: | It was mainly used in Europe, 39-42ish I think so didn't see any action in the Pacific.
They were good planes, just very vulnerable to the 109s around back then.
3 of them sunk the Konigsberg of the coast of Norway- first time a carrier-borne dive bomber had sunk a ship
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06-14-2007, 04:53 PM
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Country: | SBD for winning the Battle of Midway. SB2C for having the best capability
Swede Vejtasa for best Val/Zero killing dive bomber pilot of all time.. when Zero pilots were really good... in a SBD. | |
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06-17-2007, 08:03 PM
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Country:  | Would be cool to have one gun hidden in the tail or something. First time Mr Me-109 comes in that way, and it's what the heck, this thing can fire backwards? | |
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07-10-2007, 03:49 PM
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Country:  | SBD all the way | |
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07-10-2007, 04:40 PM
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Country:  | SBD by a mile | |
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07-10-2007, 05:31 PM
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Country: | SBD goin' away. Best lookin' as well.
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07-10-2007, 07:15 PM
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| I think the Helldiver sunk more ships, but I have to say SBD. I'm surprised more people didn't pick the Val. It did a lot of damage. | |
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12-13-2007, 11:45 AM
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12-13-2007, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by AVRoe  Fairey Barracuda Mk111 | And what exactly did this airplane do to warrent its claim to be the best?
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12-13-2007, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by plan_D It's the Ju 87E, it didn't ever fly from a carrier but because of that ...you can't say it was bad at it.  | Actually, there were plans on the drawing board to construct an ocean-going version of the Ju 87B for the never-finished Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier, but it never got beyong the planning stage.
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12-13-2007, 02:11 PM
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Country: | The SBD for me.. Look what happened at Midway...
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12-13-2007, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by mkloby Dude - the Ju 87E made a significant contribution to the war effort. Actually, it sunk HMS Hood. |
That's not the way I recall the account of the sinking. To my knowlege
there was no aircraft involved......
This from Wiki....
The first shots were fired at a range of about fourteen miles. The Hood raced toward the Bismarck in an attempt to close the range and reduce the time Hood's decks were exposed to plunging fire. Initially Hood engaged Prinz Eugen instead of Bismarck, a mistake the Prince of Wales did not repeat. The German ships quickly found the range to the Hood and she was hit first by an 8 inch (203mm) shell from Prinz Eugen on the boat deck which ignited 4 inch (102 mm) ammunition and UP rockets, causing a fire to burn out of control endangering the ship. Shortly after this, the Prinz Eugen shifted her aim to the Prince of Wales, in accordance with a semaphore order from Bismarck.[9] At about 0600 (0601 in German reckoning), Hood signalled a 20-degree turn to port which would have brought the aft turrets of the British ships into action. However, as the Hood began her turn, she was struck by one or more shells of Bismarck's fifth salvo, fired from a distance of between 15 and 18 km (about 8 to 9.5 nautical miles).[10] Almost immediately, a huge jet of flame burst out of Hood from the vicinity of the mainmast.[11] This was followed by a devastating explosion that destroyed the after part of the ship. The stern rose and sank rapidly before Hood's bow section reared up in the sea before it too sank.
Charles
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