On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:31:30 -0500, Mitchell Holman
<noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:pm0vrk02trn@drn.newsguy.com:
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> I remember reading about the reaction of carrier
>mechanics to this plane. For decades seaborne aviation
>was restricted to machines from Grumman and Douglas.
>And now comes a NEW supplier, Curtiss, and all the
>new tools and specs they have to learn. Everyone hated
>it. The pilots, the crew, the mechanics, the airedales.
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The SB2C was certainly unpopular, even though they built 7,000 of
them. Grumman and Chance Vought were the kings of the US carrier
flight deck during the war.
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