The Helldiver’s poor manufacturing was a superficial problem relative to its fundamentally flawed design. The aircraft was simply built wrong. The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was built to replace the ...

Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commercial activity. Mark Strauss The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has a new airplane: a Sonex Waiex-B that was built in one week at the Experimental ...

According to the researchers, the flight (which took place in 2023), proved that a smaller, more efficient SIC-based motor drive could replace a hybrid plane's silicon-based system while also meeting ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report from the waste-focused Truman Committee and the ...