SB2U-1_Vindicator 2024-08-07

[Captain Kurt]

Captain Kurt submitted a new resource:

SB2U-1_Vindicator - SB2U-1_Vindicator

Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator

Unit: Scout Bombing Squadron (VB-3) aboard the USS Saratoga
Pilot: Flown by the leader of the 5th flight section

With the delivery of Vought-Sikorsky’s SB2U to the fleet on December 20, 1937, the US Navy took an important technological step. The airplane represented the service’s first monoplane scout-bomber whose speed eclipsed its predecessor in Navy bombing squadrons by 45 M.P.H. There were three versions of the airplane operated by the Navy and Marine Corps...

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[kdriver]

Thanks very much Kurt for the beautiful new wind indicators.

 

[UncleTgt]

Thank you Kurt. Nice to have the early version

 

[mav]

Thanks Kurt, should look good in the hangar.

Cheers mav

 

[skylane]

I think I mentioned it before, but I really like these colorful prewar paint schemes! Thanks for this beautiful plane!