And what planes would it fly aganst in those secnarious? Curently we have tons of US equipment from the mid early and late periouds, and very little from Japan the primary enemy of the Hell diver. IMO since the Japanese are so underrepresented by comparison it would be best if we saw planes added for them in the short term instead of spending time on the Helldiver, if for no other reasion than to make for a more interesting event, one in which US planes were not being subed for Japanese types.
As to the Helldiver as a plane:Quotes from Bombers of WW2 ISBN # 1-56799-683-3:
"the only thing wron was the aircraft itself.To a man the US Navy prefered the old SBD, which simply kept on in the forfront of the battle"
"The other mass-produced Curtiss of WW2 was the SO3C Seamew, and it is doubtful if two less-successful aircraft have been ever built in numbers."
" The experance played a magor part in the decline of the once pre-ement names of Curtis and Wright in the imediate post war era"
"Structural weakness, generaly poor handeling, shockingly inadequate stabality(espichaly in yaw and pitch) and unexceptable stall characteristics."
" crashes, inflight breakups and carier landing accidents continued at the very top of the league table"
" To everyone in the US Navy this aircraft was The Beast"
