Douglas SBD Dauntless

The Douglas SBD Dauntless is an American naval dive bomber that was used by the United States Marine Corps, both from land air bases and aircraft carriers in WWII. The Scout Bomber Douglas (or SBD in short) is best remembered as the bomber that delivered the fatal blows to the Imperial Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway.

It is armed with two forward-firing machine guns, two backward-firing machine guns for the rear gunner, & 3 bombs. The bombs are however, completely made out of foam & it's very exposed to the aircraft's bottom that it can get shot & explode easily. To make bombing runs more safer for the pilot, the bomb is designed to accurately hit the target & to be dropped from a very high altitude that's enough for the enemy anti-aircrafts or flaks to have hard time hitting the plane, & to drop it with a kind of a twist & dive bombing performance done by the pilot with the help of the aim of the aircraft's gunscope.

The aircraft can withstand a lot of small & big calibers of machine gun fire, almost invincible, & even a few numbers of bazooka rockets if mostly hit on the front wings, thanks to its thickness & structure, as long as the aircraft doesn't have its bombs mounted & get them hit to explode violently.

Controls
[W] key - throttle forward
[A] & [D] keys - steer left/right (while in Operation Mode)
[C] key - camera
[X] key - retract/extend landing gear
[S] key - airbrakes (While in Operation Mode)

[Action 2], [Action 3] & [Action 4] - drop bombs
[Mouse] - steer aircraft & shoot forward machine guns with [Mouse 1 button]
i  key - fold wings (please while on ground)

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(Yes, actually updated for the first time in 2024.)