Chuck Hamilton from Bremen, IN is a Top Gun Scale aspirant and has built extraordinary scale aircraft. One of his successful foe warbirds is his pleasing SDB-3 Dauntless.

In some way, each indication he has built ties to his father, and this Ziroli designed Douglas SDB-3 Dauntless is no exception. He and his father, Lloyd Hamilton, were during a Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Michigan when they brought in a strange aircraft that this indication is formed on. While looking over a newly acquired SBD, that was recovered from Lake Michigan (with all a lake expansion still attached), his father told him a story of his best crony being a back gunner on an SBD during WW II. At that moment, he knew he had to build one.

The Ziroli SBD has standard timber construction and is easily powered by Zenoah GT-80 twin cylinder gas engine.The indication is 2.4 in. to a feet scale and has a wingspan of 100 inches. It is 78 inches prolonged and has 1,750 block inches of wing area. It facilities Robart retracts, a Spektrum DX18 radio complement for guidance, a entirely minute cockpit and is embellished with latex residence paint including

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