Now This is What I Call a Hungry Flying Tiger P-40...

[brucev]

well well well, after getting nothing but blank stares on my plea for help locating this picture last week, i stumbled apon this ancient thread with 15 posts discussing the very picture!!


but it no longer exists in the thread.


grrr

[Jack Cook]

Just saw this will look

[Holedigger]

I remember seeing it somewhere else, but have not refound it yet. Will keep my eyes open!

[Mike Bates]

Was it this one?



Mike

[Holedigger]

That's the ONE!! Hungry Shark!

[Jack Cook]

P-40N 75th FS 1Lt Don Lopez

[hang the expense]

Just goes to show you that even the P-40 did'nt like a hairdressers airplane.

[brucev]

that one is a closeup i actually hadn't seen before, many years ago i was paging through an otherwise uninteresting book in one of our more seedy public libraries when i stumbled on a picture showing Don Lopez and 1 or 2 other guys standing around the nose of the P-40 (possibly taken immediately after the accident). I have no idea what the book was, in fact it may not have been an aviation book. anyway the picture in this thread is very helpful too!!

thanks guys

[brucev]

the situation and the picture amaze me! you couldn't stage a better picture !

[marine air]

Hey Jack, on that P-40, #13, would the rudder stripes have been red and white US Army Air Corps or blue and white to match the Chinese nationalist insignia?

[Obergrafeter]

Do you still have pictures of the P-40 eating the wingtip off of the Val at T-82 about 10 years ago Lynn? I might be able to find one but haven't got a clue how to post one. If nothing else I guess I could take a picture of the pieces on my wall of shame.

[Jack Cook]

Chinese tail stripes were blue/white.