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Grampa said:What about the Ju 88 or Dornier Do 217. They where also used as a dive bomber to, even that they weren't designate mainly as a dive bomber.
Sweden also designed a good Dive bomber, The SAAB B 17 who also introduced a new aim device for dive bomber, the "bombsikte 42" that made possible to dive on the target whit an angle of 20-60 degrees instead of 80 degree an still do a better results than the old way. this device become the forerunner for those new generation aim device for dive bombing. So whit that system the B 17 might possible outclass all those classical dive bomber.
Grampa said:I Wonder if it possible whit the help of the "bombsikte m/42" to turn the Lancaster MK I (special version) that carried the 10 ton grand slam in to a dive bomber. wouldn't that be something?
syscom3 said:It missed serving in WW2 by a matter of months, but the Skyraider was probably the best dive bomber ever.
Yep, shame it was too late to see service, although it did in Korea if I am not mistaken.lesofprimus said:Agreed 100%....
Grampa said:I Wonder if it possible whit the help of the "bombsikte m/42" to turn the Lancaster MK I (special version) that carried the 10 ton grand slam in to a dive bomber. wouldn't that be something?
lesofprimus said:I think it was the end of fiscal year 1978 sys....
That was SKYRAIDER BOB!!!syscom3 said:Flyboy, back in 1990 (or so) at the short lived Hawthorne airshow, there was a Skyraider flying around that gave us a dive bombing demonstration. The pilot took her up to 5000 feet and "dropped" in on us at very sharp angle (I figured almost 90 degrees). That was one interesting stunt.