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Show Improve Helldiver and Speed Up the Output COLUMBUS, OHIO. A new model Helldiver, the Curtiss SB2C-3. with a larger engine and a four-bladed propeller adding speed, climb, ceiling ceil-ing and range to a warplane already rated the world's best of its type was announced during a na., ' sponsored visit to the Curtiss-Wright corporation plant here. The Helldiver made its fighting debut at Rabaul last November 11 and has been in most of the Pacific action since that date. Despite 75 major design revisions and changes in 3,500 parts, a navy official said the new model was being be-ing produced "ip ever increasing numbers" and that it was "joining the fleet so rapidly it soon will be on all the navy's new carriers." The navy accepted seven times as many in the first three months of 1944 than in the similar period last year. |