Posted: 4/16/2016 9:20:28 PM EDT
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I always think of John Belushi in 1941...
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| I always loved the P-40. I think the aggressive tiger paint jobs is what really set them apart from all other WWII aircraft. Polish one up like a P-51 and they would be rather bland. About 20 years ago I visited a P-40 crash site up near the Virginia border. It flat spun in and had a 500 lb. bomb on its belly. Old timers said it was quite the boom. Nothing there now but a 20 ft. wide crater full of water. We fished the crater a bit with a hoe fork and pulled some bent 50 cal. rounds out and a piece of an Ammo box. |
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Great finds! |
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Two of Arfcoms favorite planes in the background. |
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The third most produced fighter, and one of the only ones that was only produced at one facility. Buffalo NY. They were built in North Buffalo, then the fuselage and wings were put on a special trailer and taken out to the Curtis Wright plant ( former site of which is now a very large parking lot for Buffalo Airport ) in Cheektowaga for final assembly. And I'm sure some .50 cal guns in the process came from Buffalo Arms Corp., local purveyors of .50 and .30 Browning goodness. |
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Quoted: Instead of Curtiss cranking out P-47's, they continued making an outdated airframe. They managed a paltry 350 or so Thunderbolts in a year and a half. Why wouldn't they keep building P-40's? It was their aircraft and they were making a boatload of money selling them to foreign customers up until 1944. |
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My first P40 RC model didn't fare well..... 30 seconds into its maiden flight... http://m4.i.pbase.com/g5/72/325172/2/118935664.8wT4SJzt.jpg Quoted:
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first model I ever built, teeth and all.  http://m4.i.pbase.com/g5/72/325172/2/118935664.8wT4SJzt.jpg I may or may not have done that with a T-28  And a J-3 Piper Cub 
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