spitfire101
Airman
- 42
- Oct 24, 2006
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If you had to fly one in WW2 by performance which one would you chose the avenger or dauntless?
And sorry ive been in Texas for track, my team won states and we broke a high school record, so i havent had much time to finish my first model if you guys still remember my post but ill try to get back to that and get some pictures up.
I too would rather Dive Bomb. You get hit up there you can still jump out. You hit at 50ft in a torpedo bomber you are going for a swim in the damn thing, and with my luck it would sink before I could get out of the cockpit!
whats was the dauntless' toughest thing to accplish, like hitting a target or being shot down before it could accoplish its mission? this is to flyboyj
......F4U could equal the SBDs accuracy which is one reason the carriers embarked as many F4Us as they did by the end of the war.
There was a torpedo bomber developed by Vought, the TBU that reportedly had superior performance to the TBF but the production of the Avenger was already underway so no TBUs beyond the prototype were produced.
It was more a problem with the Kamikazi's that required the use of more Corsairs.
But yes, the USN figured out that a Corsair could also double as an effective light bomber.