Curtiss-Wright Helldivers
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Curtiss-Wright Helldivers
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Caption: Faster and farther describes the performaces of the Curtiss-Wright Helldivers which are hammering away at the Japs in the South Pacific
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FASTER AND FARTHER describes the per-
formance of the Curtiss-Wright Helldivers
which are hammering away at the Japs in
the South Pacific. Latest of the famed series
is the SB2C-1, which owes its success to the
incorporation in its design of all the im-
~ provements for dive-bombing
that have been achieved since
the war began. A high-output
Wright Cyclone engine powers
this low-midwing monoplane,
which is equipped with a three-
bladed Curtiss electric full-
feathering propeller. The Hell-
diver carries a heavier bomb
load with longer range and high-
er speed than any other plane
of its type. Since its first ap-
pearance in 1942, there have
been more than 880 major de-
sign changes that have kept it
ahead of all other dive-bomber
types. A version used by the
Army is designated A-25. The
Helldiver takes its name from
the first dive bomber, the Curtiss FSC bi-
plane used by the U. S. Navy in evolving
this new form of attack between 1927 and
1930. In the photograph below, a Helldiver
is shown with its wings folded back as they
would be on the deck of a carrier.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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70
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 4, 1944
