Easy Built Models Helldiver

FF and electric conversions compared By Bob Benjamin bob@rcmodel.com Photos by the author As seen in the July 2022 issue of Model Aviation. The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver is not an airplane that many aeromodelers typically choose as the subject of RC Scale building projects. The full-scale Helldiver was a second-generation design that followed the Curtiss SBC biplane dive bomber onto U.S. Navy aircraft carrier decks in 1943. The SBC, a 1930s design, never had much opportunity to prove itself in actual combat. When the SB2C’s turn came along, it did not win a place among those…