P-40E AK979 Circa 1970
Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:22 pm
With the EAA Milwaukee, WI 1970
Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:32 pm
I have never seen a P-40 with four blades.
Re: P-40E AK979 Circa 1970
Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:15 pm
Jack Cook wrote:
With the EAA Milwaukee, WI 1970
Hales Corners era? Right behind the race track, only semi-paved race track in the world, or was.
Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:28 pm
262crew wrote:I have never seen a P-40 with four blades.
You ain't the Lone Ranger on this one man, neither have I.
Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:55 pm
Same A/C ??
Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:57 pm
Looks rike it to me Bloss
Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:12 am
I would love to know if it gave the P-40 any more speed or climb . Was it a P-51 prop cut down to size or somekind of Curtiss electrtic ?
Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:14 am
This is the airplane later operated by Tom Camp in the 1970s -- he gradually restored it back to a more stock "E" configuration. By the time I first saw it about 1975 (coded TL-C at that time) it still had that wierd canopy configuration but had a regular 3-bladed prop. It got a proper -E canopy about 1976 or 1977.