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Old 04-19-2012, 09:05 AM
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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.

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Old 04-19-2012, 09:30 AM
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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:

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Wow! look at that. Nice pics Sutts, it looks like the dry desert has preserved it quite well.
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Old 04-19-2012, 09:32 AM
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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.
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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.
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Old 04-19-2012, 10:19 AM
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I have a soft spot for Warhawks and kittyhawks ofc

Warhawk's were P40C & D Tomahawk II's. Kittyhawk's were P40E,F & G's.
What do you reckon this one is DroopSnoot?
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Old 04-22-2012, 09:34 PM
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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.
Ah, me too. I think it is a beautiful plane and it has something very American about it. While the stang has something of a glamour boy and Cadillac style about it the P40 seems to me to be more grass root cowboy style.
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Old 04-19-2012, 05:33 PM
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Wow! look at that. Nice pics Sutts, it looks like the dry desert has preserved it quite well.
True, and saved money as well - you can skip the sandblasting.
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Old 04-19-2012, 05:51 PM
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True, and saved money as well - you can skip the sandblasting.
No kidding! Those surfaces have been sandblasted by mother nature herself, bet you can almost see your own reflection on that or put a fresh coat of mottling on it.
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That is definitely a Hawk 87 RAF name Kittyhawk, not the early Hawk 81, known to the RAF as a Tomahawk.

An amazing find.

I hope they are able to secure it.
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Incredible Find.









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