Author Topic: What is this aircraft II? (Read 553 times)

Widewing · « **on:** May 15, 2005, 11:13:27 AM »

Go to the website in the photo link if need be.

My regards,

Widewing

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2005, 11:26:28 AM »

Strange I don't remeber seeing this plane and I'm suppose to know the French planes

Perhaps it was never used/delivered ?

MiloMorai · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2005, 11:44:40 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo
Strange I don't remeber seeing this plane and I'm suppose to know the French planes
Perhaps it was never used/delivered ?

Curtiss SBC Helldiver. Some originally ordered by France were used as trainers by the RAF, that called them Cleveland.

Widewing · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2005, 11:03:48 AM »

The photo's caption reads:

"This is a nice shot of the French Cleveland. They were ordered by the combined Anglo/french Purchasing commission in 1939. The British received three or four depending on your sources, which flew well into 1944 even though they were marked M for maintenance. The French ones were not so fortunate, they were loaded on the French carrier Berne and shipped to Martinique, there they were off loaded and languished away till the wars end when France fell in June 1940."

My regards,

Widewing

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:02:46 PM »

hey France also had the SB2C, but that's probably post-WW2, right?

Krusty · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:38:30 PM »

LOL Wish I'd seen that sooner! I've got a 1:72nd version sitting on the shelf in front of me. It's the SBC-4 helldiver (check the cowling, it's the -4). It was obsolete when it started arriving

I painted mine in yellow winged USN markings, but I want to do another someday with those French camo markings.

Brits found them wholly unsuited to combat and used them as trainers. Marines used them til I think '44, but as sub spotters and observation planes.