An Unlucky SBD Dauntless.

• Aug 21, 2019

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I saw this in another group.

A Dauntless is going off the side of the USS Cabot. Sept 1943.

 

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• Aug 21, 2019

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Gnomey

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Interesting!

 

• Aug 21, 2019

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Agree.

 

• Aug 23, 2019

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Here's the accident report for the first accident mentioned in the first page of the Ship's Log.

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And here's the accident report for the crash photo and the 2nd page from the Ship's Log. I have to wonder what the Radioman Cote was feeling about his pilot after two crashes in less than two weeks.

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• Aug 26, 2019

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Photo clearly shows stbd wing in the water, as per the first report but the other, clearly the same incident, says on landing gofigger. No tailhook evident in the photo, which presumably = a launch but the sternward view indicates landing. Anyway, the SBD was a sweetheart through the stall. When we restored ours The Word was "Flies like a big SNJ" and that was true. Thing is: most planes of the era stalled left wing first, which is why the pitot tube went there.

 

• Aug 28, 2019

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