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 Post subject: CAF P-40N mishap? ...
PostPosted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:28 am 
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Am I reading this correctly? As in the date? Sadly it seems so.

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Planes can be fixed. Glad the pilot is ok.
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Bummer on the damage, but glad everyone is ok. I’ve got several friends down there with the group this weekend.
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Seems to be a ground movement or mechanical incident. It's on a taxiway.. All three tires have air in them. Prop suggests idle or minimum power. Windsock (orange & white construction flag) suggests 0 to 2 knots of wind. Mud on the tires suggest not a favorable day to taxi off the paved surfaces. Expensive, but not too bad. It sure could've been a lot worse.


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According to Fb accumulator failure..

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Spitty wrote:
According to Fb accumulator failure..


Must be a home brewed system. P-40's don't use accumulators.
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Maybe typo’ed and should have been actuator?
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Where is the P-40 actually based now please?
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Andy Marden wrote:
Where is the P-40 actually based now please?


It splits its time between Dallas, Houston, Muskogee, OK and Tarkio, MO. It is assigned to six of us as a Sponsor Group.

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It doesn't look too banged up...
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Who was the driver?
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I think he went by Wild Bill Kelso... :drinkers:

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Can the gear handle be pulled up and the gear retract on the ground like the P-38? Could there have been a mistake between the gear handle and the flaps or other handle? I don't know the P-40, just asking.
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