The Terrifying Physics of WWII Dive Bombing

They completely missed the fact the main 1,000 lb. bomb was on a U-shaped trapeze that rotated the bomb away from the propeller during the dive.
Talk about ignored the KEY feature of the Douglas SBD's.

Noisy? Idk...aren't you guys using the Stuka siren effect?

The stupidity of using the audio of stuka's trumpet on the documentary even though the dauntless didn't install any of them zzz

Stuka left the chat

Actor Paul Newman was a turret gunner, in an Avenger torpedo bomber during WW2.

Cool video, just the promissed physics is somehow missing from the view

They aimed the entire plane at the target! At Midway, James Best held his dive to under 800 feet!!! At that speed, he barely had time to pull out of his dive!
No other dive bomber in the world dived as steep as the Dauntless! Not even its replacement. Many pilots preferred the Dauntless over the Helldiver!

An excellent account of the Battle of Midway is given in the book Miracle at Midway by Gordon W Prague.

I truly hate these videos where the narrator emphasises every word. It just becomes meaningless.

Just Skimmed the Surface of the Dauntless

My father was a rear gunner in a Navy dive bomber during WWII. The rear gunner was also the radio man. He didn't talk much about this experience other than to tell me it was terrifying.

My father was a rear gunner on the SBD

STUKA DIVE BOMBER WAS 6 Gs

The scariest part of this is not dropping the bomb it's pulling out of the Dive against 5 Gs or something

dive bomber is ju 87 with siren its terrifying sound

Holes for the flaps and ailerons FTW~!!!
We need more holes in modern plane designs

Death Defying ride? sounds literal for Japanese, cuz if they miss, they have another bomb in store. Themselves

Were is the Stuka?

U.S. better hold on to those old planes, if all these "computer" planes etc. Go down may need the oldies for protection...

Well not American torpedoes

war thunder is free🙂

I miss the WWII generation, today's people are fear driven wimps. What's life without a little unknown adventure? I'm ashamed to be a part of today's society

My grandfather's first cousin flew a dauntless. He told my grandfather there's a fine art to dive-bombing. If you did it right, you were pinned against the back of your seat. If you did it wrong, you were basically completely weightless with your belts pulling on your shoulders. It had to do with how you entered your dive. Wish I could have talked to him myself. The man died of cancer in the 1960s.

I stopped watching on "one thousand tonne bombs". Come on

It was only terrifying if it wouldn't pull up which was possibly if the wings were shot up. That would be awful

That was a total letdown!

A ladybug on the tip of a shoe?

Testament to how well these ww2 planes were built....200 rounds and that plane got back to his carrier but I hoped the gunner survived....

How did these pilots fit in the cockpit with the size of their cahonies?

Great trailer. Now where’s the rest🤔

What does any woman know about dive bombing?

The Germans and the Japanese also used Stukas and other planes in this naval bombing role, with great success. I know less about the other belligerents.

... Why do i have the feeling they want to sell us the dauntless Was the first (and maybe best) dive bomber in ww2? Hello, altough im Not very proud of my countrys politics and ideology in the 30s and half if the 40s, the first Real one Was our stuka.

There is nothing in this video about "the physics of dive bombing".

Its an SBD3

How many dive bombing missions did that lady experience? I fail to see what a woman has to do in this video

imagine an f35 dive bombing

Different colors from Midway movie

I didn't know the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber had jericho trumpets, too! I thought only the Stukas had those!!
🤣👍

What I've always found fascinating is that the Japanese Navy back then had so much pride that they had to put a HUGE flag/symbol on the decks of carriers that made a perfect target 🎯🎯

Dive bombing increased the accuracy but decreased range where as bomb tossing increased range but decreased accuracy
(Fun fact)

The guy in the back must of have balls of steel man, kudos to that generation! Todays young adults are more worried about the right pronouns for gods sake.

Why not just use remote control missiles and drop it from afar for safety?

Thank You SC for the dynamics of Dauntless Duke dive bombing and dropping torpedos. Especially the effect it had on our pilots and gunners. There but by the grace of God they prevailed at Midway and won the war for the Pacific.

20000ft?

like a roller coaster ride

Face it right then we have something

regards

Someone Terrible

Tom Eversole mentioned near the end of the video was a torpedo bomber pilot. He was close friends with Dusty Kleiss who sank multiple ships at Midway. On Eversole's last mission, he and Kleiss exchanged looks knowing Eversole was almost surely going to die needlessly due to the inefficiency of the torpedoes he was carrying. Unfortunately, he was right. He never returned. Read the book by Kleiss. Very interesting and informative.

I can never dive bomb properly in war thunder, I just go in low and slow over enemy tanks.

The JU-87 Stukas probably did this first.