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"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Ah, really interesting. So Jack Northrop made the original design and Ed Heinemann perfected it. No wonder it worked out so well.
The Northrop BT-1 (1935), blueprint for the Dauntless
Before the famous Dauntless was the only Northrop model developed for the Navy, the BT dive bomber, which introduced perforated air brakes.
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Douglas SBD Dauntless (1939)
The Douglas SBD Dauntless is one of the most famous and best remembered USN dive bombers of WW2, for good reasons. Here is the complete story.
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