Tallmantz P-40s

[aerovin]

n my effort to expand the material on my Tallmantz pages at aerovintage.com, I just posted some pages about the six P-40s affiliated with Paul Mantz, Frank Tallman, or Tallmantz Aviation through the years.

https://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz-p-40s/



One of the P-40Ns, 44-7203, remains a bit of a mystery. If anyone has any information on that airplane, I'd sure appreciate hearing it...

[DamonE]

Kermit Weeks now owns and flies this one . I think

[JohnTerrell]

Excellent writing of the histories of those six P-40's, Scott! I was paging through some old issues of Air Classics a while back, from around 1990, and I came across a couple photos of 44-7983 following its restoration at Chino and first post-restoration test flight, in over all bare metal. It of course wasn't long after that, that it was shipped to England and has been out of the public eye ever since.

[aerovin]

Excellent writing of the histories of those six P-40's, Scott! I was paging through some old issues of Air Classics a while back, from around 1990, and I came across a couple photos of 44-7983 following its restoration at Chino and first post-restoration test flight, in over all bare metal. It of course wasn't long after that, that it was shipped to England and has been out of the public eye ever since.

I'll have to look those up...thanks for making me aware.

[Lon Moer]

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One of the P-40Ns, 44-7203, remains a bit of a mystery. If anyone has any information on that airplane, I'd sure appreciate hearing it...

https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=34847



frickin darn ggl search.......

Last edited by Lon Moer on Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:50 am, edited 2 times in total.

[aerovin]

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One of the P-40Ns, 44-7203, remains a bit of a mystery. If anyone has any information on that airplane, I'd sure appreciate hearing it...

https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=34847

Hmmmm...thanks for the link but it's for 44-7983...I'm looking for more information on 44-7203.

[Dan Jones]

Are P-40's known for tail wheel door problems? I've seen a few of them with their doors removed, like this one.

[Zac Yates]

Are P-40's known for tail wheel door problems? I've seen a few of them with their doors removed, like this one.

If you're referring to the one in the first post I don't believe they're removed, they normally sit pretty flat when the gear is extended. You can just see the shadow of the port door.

For comparison here are some photos I've taken of 41-25158:
dsc06844_35641140096_o by Zac Yates, on Flickr
adf793e6-f434-481f-9535-c9680f94144d_zps98pwgyt6_35680457745_o by Zac Yates, on Flickr

[Dan Jones]

Thanks Zac. Maybe that's what I've been seeing - I'll look a little closer from now on.

Dan