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SB2U-2 Loaded weight: 6,37X lb
SB2U-2 Empty weight: 4,7Y3 lb
The actual cache location: N41 26.13X W88 33.50Y
This series is dedicated to the gallant service performed by the brave airmen of World War 2 who risked all so that we may enjoy our American way of life. The phrase “Big Brother, Little Brother” refers to the way the heavy bomber and fighter escort aircraft pilots called each other on the radio chatter.
On a personal note, my father “John” served as a flight engineer on a B-25 Mitchell out of Italy in 1944 and 1945. He made it back alive, as did my father-in-law “Danny” who served as a belly gunner on a B-24 Liberator out of Libya. “Danny” was one of the few airmen who flew in both Ploesti oil field raids to Romania (June 1942 and August 1943) and did so without so much as a scratch. He flew his 25 missions and returned to the US as a gunnery instructor (Lead, Dammit, Lead!).
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SB2U Vindicator
The Vought SB2U Vindicator was a carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role. Obsolescent at the outbreak of World War II, Vindicators still remained in service at the time of the Battle of Midway, but by 1943, all had been withdrawn to training units.
Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator Technicals
General characteristics-
Crew: Two, pilot and gunner
Length: 34 ft 0 in
Wingspan: 42 ft in
Height: 10 ft 3 in
Wing area: 305 ft²
Empty weight: 4,713 lb
Loaded weight: 6,379 lb
Max. takeoff weight: 7,332 lb
Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-1535-96 Twin Wasp Jr radial engine, 825 hp
Performance-
Maximum speed: 251 mph
Range: 630 mi
Service ceiling: 27,500 ft
Rate of climb: 1,340 ft/min
Armament-
Guns:
1 × forward firing 0.30 in M1919 Browning machine gun in starboard wing
1 × .30 in machine gun in flexible mount for tail gunne
Bombs:
1 × 1,000 lb or 500 lb bomb
Survivors
On display-
SB2U-2 Vindicator, BuNo. 1383 at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, FL.