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SBD Dauntless

Lagaffe, as you are focused on the Commemorative Air Force's SBD-5 Dauntless, there is also this great video that delves into the history of that particular aircraft.

For decades, it was thought to have been a USAAF A-24B Banshee, 42-54532, but in the early 2000s, through some good research, the CAF Dixie Wing discovered it was actually in-fact Navy SBD-5 Bureau No. 54532 (note the numbers being the same) - the mix-up stemming from a simple paperwork error when the aircraft was sold surplus after WWII. This document outlines that research and how they came about finding out its true identity: https://airbasegeorgia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CAF-Douglas-SBD-5-Dauntless-BuAer-54532-.pdf

 
Really fine photos in detail lagaffe. I sure wish I had those when I was constructing my Dauntless. I used the Detail & Scale book. Bert and I are fellow Hokies, we both went to Virginia Tech at the same time.

Cazzie
 
Great news and great detail photos lagaffe. I used the Detail & Scale book in constructing my Dauntless. Bert and I are fellow Hokies, we went to Virginia Tech at the same time.

Cazzie
 
lagaffe said:
Hello,

For quite some time I have been thinking about the next project I would like to do.

In 2013, I had found on the web Witold Jaworski’s work concerning computer modeling. For several years he detailed the design of several aircraft : P-40 and Lavochkin-5 and notably an SBD Dauntless: https://blenderartists.org/t/sbd-dauntless-us-navy-dive-bomber/641592.

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During these years he also published several books (PDF) that include all this work in a didactic way, "books" that I bought of course to improve my way of modeling on Blender: https://airplanes3d.net/index_e.html. These are excellent bedside books

All these years, I have gathered a large number of documents on these planes (avialogs.com), but if you have any, I would be very happy to be able to consult other photos or books.

Naturally, I had thought one day with his agreement of course, to create an interior for this plane, what do you think, are you interested by this kind of aircraft in simulation?
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Hello Lagaffe,
You can count me in!!!
See the back of my G-1 flight jacket customized by Dominique Gabillé:
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This is the same insignia (of VB-16 Squadron) as on the nose of the Dauntless on your screen.
Cheers,

Stéph.
 
Sorry for not following the post too much these days but FS20 & 24 have caused me problems since the beginning of the week.
To relax, I decided to start switching my PC/laptop from Win10 to Win11 and first of all to switch the disks from my PC/laptop to GPT and then migrate them to Win11.
My two PCs being now in GPT (quick operation but not very easy), I decided to reinstall FS20 & FS 24 cleanly on the same SSD: they worked well and the next day the trouble returned.
I was still forced to repair, then reset and even reinstall the XBox and Store applications several times without forgetting the Game Service (very important) and then this morning: it came back ... anyway, I’m crossing my fingers to hope for more luck from today

@Bomber_12th, I just finish to read your PDF: very interesting document that will be store in my documentation folder for this aircraft!
 
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Count me as very interested. My local museum has restored quite a few of them pulled out of Lake Michigan over the years.
 
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