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#IMAGES OF A SBD 3 DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER SERIES#
#IMAGES OF A SBD 3 DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER WINDOWS#

Choice of one-piece cockpit enclosure (canopies closed) or individual segments for open canopies.Detailed radio and radar set in rear cockpit.

#IMAGES OF A SBD 3 DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER WINDOWS#

Clear instrument panel with decal-based instrument faces which were applied to the back of the panel to simulate the clear glass and depth of the instruments (you masked the instrument windows and painted the rest of the instrument panel face.

Choice of decals or photo-etched parts for crew restraints.

Beautifully detailed front and rear cockpits.

Starting with the basic Accurate Miniatures kit, this offers the following features and options: To date, the A-M SBD kits have appeared in Italeri, Eduard, and Academy boxes. To date however, nobody has produced a better kit of the SBD in 1/48 scale and it is only logical that these SBD kits would be sold in other companies' boxes. Even so, these AM kits were the best kits of the SBD in any scale for a time until Trumpeter released their 1/32 Dauntlesses. The Accurate Miniatures SBD-series kits were first released over ten years ago before the company was eventually shuttered.

#IMAGES OF A SBD 3 DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER SERIES#

The SBD-5 received a 1200 horsepower engine and would become the most-produced version of the Dauntless series with over 2400 were built, with some sent to the Royal Navy, RNZAF, Free French and Mexican Air Forces. In addition, a new propeller and fuel pumps rounded out the improvements over the SBD-3. Due to shortages of radar sets, early production SBD-4 aircraft reached the field without radars, but late production SBD-4s came with the radar pre-installed. This change allowed a wider range of avionics options including the installation of the ASB radar. The SBD-4 was an incremental improvement over the SBD-3 which was highlighted by the replacement of the aircraft's 12 volt electrical system with a 24 volt system. To keep the bomb that is hung on the centerline bomb rack from falling through the spinning propeller (a bad thing), a trapeze mechanism was used to swing the bomb out below the propeller arc during release.

Consequently, when the bomb is released, it will accelerate away from the diving bomber. Like other USN dive bombers, the SBD employed split flaps that doubled as dive brakes to keep the aircraft from accelerating beyond its maximum speed and ripping the wings off the aircraft. The Dauntless was a dive bomber, the steeper the dive, the more likely the bomb will go where you're aiming after release. The aircraft was two-place monoplane of all-metal construction (except for the flight control surfaces) powered by the Wright R1820 radial engine.

The Douglas Aircraft Company developed the SBD Dauntless in a pre-war competition for the 'next generation' carrier dive bomber.