Curtiss SB2C Helldiver with twin floats!

[MAD]

Hello gents

I just found this whilst reading about George Spangenberg
I remember participating in a study on putting twin floats on an (Curtiss) SB2C (Helldiver) for a 2600 mile one-way flight mission. It was for providing close air support in an attack on the Gilberts. That scenario never happened.

Would someone like to have a crack at this profile?

M.A.D

[jcf]

They did build a single XSB2C-2:


Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume Six: Floatplanes has a 3-view.

[MAD]

Well thank you very much!!
It just goes to show you can not believe everything you read!!

M.A.D

[Jschmus]

BuNo. 00005 was flown from the Curtiss plant at Columbus, Ohio, to NAS Anacostia, Washington D,C., where it was fitted with two enormous Edo floats (about the same length as the airframe) and it was flown in late September, with rough water tests successfully concluded on March 9, 1943. The aircraft went through a number of armament trials, but by 1944 the interest in combat floatplanes had faded and the program was cancelled on April 14, 1944, including production orders for 287 SB2C-2s.

[jcf]

Three-view.

[kitnut617]

It actually doesn't look to bad with floats --- hmmm!

I'm not surprised by the size of the floats either, I've been finding that out with a few of my planned projects.