Warbird Information Exchange

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...

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Scott Thompson
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Kermit Weeks now owns and flies this one . I think

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.

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



frickin darn ggl search.......

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

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

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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

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Zac in NZ
#avgeek, modelbuilder, photographer, writer. Callsign: "HANDBAG".
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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

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

Dan

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