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P-40 Found In Sahara
 

Found by oil explorers, looks genuine to me. Would be very hard to fake that kind of detail.

Can any of our Polish friends talk to this guy please and see if they can find someone to recover it before it's trashed by scrappers? Would hate to see it go the same way as Lady Be Good.

Polish website but here's the translation:

http://translate.google.com/translat...ge%3D1&act=url

Wow! look at that. Nice pics Sutts, it looks like the dry desert has preserved it quite well.

S!

Interesting find and seems not to be too much robbed by looters. Would be nice to know more about this plane, how it ended up there etc. Thanks for sharing.

I have a soft spot for tomahawks and kittyhawks.

It appears this looks like a tomahawk, you can tell this by the air intake on the nose. By the development of the C variant the intake had been streamlined and lowered, also the nose mounted machine guns had been removed.

Tomahawk's were P40C & D's. Kittyhawk's were P40E,F & G's, Warhawks were K's upwards.

What do you reckon this one is DroopSnoot?

Sorry sutts I made a typo ive updated my post above.

This is a tomahawk I'm betting, looks like an early one at first glance as the iconic Radiator intake is smaller. Although by the E the air intake was more streamlined the oil radiator was much larger to cope with the larger uprated engine.

Another indication is the spinner size and frontal nose area, with the Kitty is much bigger and boxy than the tomahawk:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._kittyhawk.jpg

In comparison:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...6_tomahawk.jpg

(Not ideal photo I know)

Thanks DroopSnoot. I can't stop looking at these pics, just love timecapsules. Hope it gets the treatment it deserves. Wonder if the pilot got home?

Sad thought but many pilots didnt because of the vastness of the desert. I could be wrong but i dont think the RAF had a search & resuce for the desert because of the fluid nature of the war there.

I remember watching a war film years ago with P40's, it had a Tomahawk and a Kittyhawk in it. I'm gonna go hunt for it watch this space.

Wonder if it is restorable?