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Unbelievably Scale Dauntless Dive Bomber

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First competing at the 2017 Top Gun Scale Invitational, Chuck Hamilton of Bremen, Indiana, flew his impressive Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless in the Pro-Am class. Chuck came back in 2018 for the 30th annual event, and again flying his Dauntless, he placed eighth in the Expert class. For many scale modelers, the SBD Dauntless is an impressive choice for a project because the full-size dive-bomber played such a recognized role in the Pacific Theater of World...

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