Saturday, October 7, 2023

I wonder if any of these are still airworthy?

 

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  1. Looks like a Vought SB2U Vindicator. One of the first Navy monoplane attack aircraft.

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  2. According to Wikipedia:
    "Only one known survivor exists today:
    SB2U-2 Vindicator, Bureau Number 1383, is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, Florida."

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  3. Enjoy excellent Technicolor aerial photography of the Vought Vindicator in the 1941 film Dive Bomber, along with also superb photography of other USN aircraft of that period.

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  4. Not sexy enough. Sank some enemy shipping though.

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  5. They weren't all that airworthy to begin with anyway. The Vindicator was widely viewed as underpowered and highly vulnerable to AA.

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  6. Does that 18' long cockpit have a bathroom in it?

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  7. In Colorado Springs there is a WW-2 Air Museum that every plane displayed is capable of flying...and most are taken out and flown often.

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  8. nickname: wind indicator. there is no way to open the canopy from the outside while in flight. if the pilot elects to vacate the premises he can't help the guys in back out. George Bush jumped out of a similar PBM in WWII. the inevitable critics called him a coward because he did not get the crew out. they either did not know, but judged him anyways, or they knew, and kept that fact to themselves.

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    1. GHWB was a TBM Avenger pilot, not a PBM.

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  9. Madras, Oregon: Erickson Aircraft Museum. I flew in an open cockpit Steerman. What a ride!!!

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