[Milsurplus] SB2C-1

[w4thq at cox.net]

See "Arthur Collins, Radio Wizard" by B. W. Stearns, pp 56 - 57.

The ART-13 development model was ready in early December 1941, was tested in an SBD shorty thereafter and was probably under contract early in 1942.  It was provided to the Navy during 1942.

W4THQ, John


---- Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote: 
> Saw this in "Profile Aircraft 124 Curtiss SB2C-1 
> Helldiver" Sept. 1982: 
> 
> "In the spring [1942] Curtiss-Wright was informed
> that 3000 additional [to 578] would be ordered for the 
> Navy, the contract change being signed in June [1942].
> Meanwhile radar (ASB), IFF (ABD/ABK), and new radio
> (ATC and ARB) installations were designed and mocked
> up for  approval....December 1942 saw the first SB2C-1s
> delivered to a fleet squadron...The results were sufficiently
> bad for the Yorktown skipper to recommend that contract
> cancellation be considered....VB-6 and VB-4 were then 
> issued SBDs to meet their combat schedule...
> On 21 October 1943....first [SB2C-1] combat operations....
> 
> I just thought it kind of interesting that the ATC was being
> installed this early in WW2.
> -Hue Miller 
> 
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