CAF Warbird Tube: SBD Dauntless
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Join us for a walk-around tour of the CAF's SBD Dauntless "Lady in Blue" based at CAF Airbase Georgia. Douglas Aircraft built over 5,000 of these carrier-based dive bombers that helped turn the tide of World War II at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. Have you ever seen one up close?
I totally love these planes, one of my most favourite ever. There's something about them, they just look right. Beautiful !
Fantastic!
Thanks!
Great explanation on the type certificate! I always wondered if you could do the dive on a ride or if they ever did that at airshows but this explains it.
I'm going to by flying in this thing in a couple months, I'm really looking forward to it!
I'd trade my right leg just to sit in an SBD's gunner station for 15 minutes. Even just on the ground, engine off. My absolute favorite warbird. I suppose y'all don't accept limbs as currency though, darn it.
IMHO the Dauntless doesn't get nearly the love and appreciation she earned. The main instrument of the first big W for the US in WWII.
(Not that my opinion matters at all, but I agree she should wear Midway colours.)
I love the ole' Slow But Deadly and have since I was a little kid. Thanks CAF for loving her, too.
Catch up with them at an air show and ask. To sit in the back that is, not if they take limbs as currency. 🤣
They could also hold their own in a dog fight to some degree, great planes. Slow Beautiful Deadly.
The plane that helped Enterprise get her Battle Stars.