It was based on a Boeing patented design that had a gear at the top of the
gear strut that made it rotate as the gear came up, to allow the wheel/tire to ride flush with the wing.
I'm not sure what Treetop is on about other than that, and it does come up that way if you watch in externals.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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