Wrecked RAF P-40 Kittyhawk found in Egypt

[stewart]

That's awesome

[whichfinger]

I think it's a Tomahawk.... The engine doesn't look like the Packard or Merlin. Looks like a radial engine.... I would say it's a twin wasp. Probably a Tomahawk.

wat

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.

[Ridge]

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

[nickaballison]

wow that is amazing. I cant imagine a place where no human has walked in 70 years, how cool.

[cofi]

And then there is the tragedy of the Lady Be Good

That was a great read

[ruthabagah]

wat

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.

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.

The first picture on the article can be confusing, but the other ones show clearly a V12 config.

[geo351]

cool find !! love the old planes!!

[rshives]

At least we now know where bum-f#$% Egypt is located now.

[rondog]

Can't believe the guns are still in it.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

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.