Unquestionably the most successful dive-bomber ever to see frontline service with any air arm, the Douglas SBD Dauntless was the scourge of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in the crucial years of the Pacific War. The revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design of the SBD exhibited airframe strength that made it an ideal dive-bomber, its broad wing, with horizontal centre section and sharply tapered outer panels with dihedral, boasting perforated split flaps that doubled as dive brakes during the steep bombing attacks
Название: SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2
Издательство: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Год: November 1998
Серия: Osprey Combat Aircraft 10
Author: Barrett Tillman
Illustrator: Tom Tullis
Страниц: 103
Язык: Английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 24,5 Mb
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