Wingless P-40 in Minot ND

[hang the expense]

Just wondering, has Diemert ever rebuilt an aircraft without using parts from other types of a/c or altering them in any sort of way????

T J

The Hurricane CF-SMI.

Jim

NO

[mexchiwa]

Warbirdnerd - thanks for the link. Am I going crazy or was it originally in civil colors?

[JohnTerrell]

Here is likely the same set of photos of the aircraft when Bob Diemert owned it, now on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@ ... 789690023/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@ ... 789690023/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@ ... 789690023/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@ ... 789690023/

[hang the expense]

The last picture in the flicker is not the airplane that diemert started with.That fuselage is intact and curtiss built.The one that diemert started with was intact from firewall to station 5(right behind the pilot) and was an N model,Everything aft of the number 5 bulkhead was diemert built including the extra frames.The wings may be the ones he used as everything from the wheel wells out was also built from scratch and the inside of the wings was nothing like what curtiss built.

[JohnTerrell]

In the last photo, the vertical already doesn't appear to be P-40, but rather T-6, and the rear fuselage already looks a bit 'cobbled' together.

[hang the expense]

The rear vision panels are not a match.I wil stand by what I said about the fuselage.