SBD-3 seat belt question

My understanding is that early war and pre-war Navy planes often had only lap belts and that the shoulder harness was added later. You'll have to pin down the period in time for your plane and determine if that would have had only lap belts. My bet is that Eduard is correct.

BK

BrandonK

My understanding is that early war and pre-war Navy planes often had only lap belts and that the shoulder harness was added later. You'll have to pin down the period in time for your plane and determine if that would have had only lap belts. My bet is that Eduard is correct.

BK

 

Yup. I don't know at what point in the war production that shoulder harnesses were added. But the aircraft that we went to war with, Army & Navy (which includes the Marines), had just lap belts, in the opening timespan.

That is interesting info, I have the AM 1/48 yllow wings Dauntless and will have to go look wht the instructions say wrt belts.

Theuns

I have the Detail & Scale book on the SBD. It has the info on the seat belts & harnesses. I'll look it up later on and see what it says about timeframes.