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Re: Curtiss Helldiver
Another nickname for teh SB2C was "The Beast".The Helldiver was riddled with problems eg structural weakness, horrible stall characteristics (worse than the early F4U Corsairs), poor stability, very poor handling, engine failures, in-flight breakups to name just a few. In fact it wasn't until the introduction of the SB2C-3 that things started to get under control, but even then the Curtiss suffered from a high number of carrier crashes and stability problems for the remainder of it's career.
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