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Originally Posted by ruthabagah
The P-40 never had a radial engine, and certainly the ones that flew in North Africa never had a Packard or Merlin. IIRC, the only Packard-Merlins installed in P-40s were strictly for evaluation purposes late in the war, and to my recollection none ever saw combat. P-40s flew in combat with Allison V-12s.
Curtiss' predecessor to the P-40, the P-36 Hawk, did use a radial engine.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...P-36A_Hawk.jpg
A USAAC officer managed to get off the ground in a P-36 at Pearl Harbor during the attack and shot down a couple Japanese planes in his PJs before he was forced down :)
wow that is amazing. I cant imagine a place where no human has walked in 70 years, how cool.
That was a great readQuote:
Originally Posted by Ridge
Except that the P40F that were never delivered to the French before the capitulation in 1940 had a mix of Radial engines and later a some were adapted to carry the Hispano-suiza 12Y removed from downed airplanes, or surplus stored in Algeria. They were extensively used in north Africa, because they were already adapted to the local conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by whichfinger
The first picture on the article can be confusing, but the other ones show clearly a V12 config.
cool find !! love the old planes!!
At least we now know where bum-f#$% Egypt is located now. :)
Can't believe the guns are still in it.
Yeah me either. They probably disappeared faster than a set of rims at a puff daddy concert.Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog