Warbird Information Exchange

This time I know the date and place, but not the identity of the aircraft. Take it away guys!

August

P-40N 44-7619 N1251N I believe the late Bob Downey (raced F1s in Reno) and a guy named George Mokski fixed this plane up with the canopy off of a jet of some kind. Shot at Chino???

T J

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This does look to be 44-7619. I'm usually bad with locations so, again, I'm clueless!

Some more photos of this Hawk in this configuration... or, as I call it, the 'Blackhawks' P-40.





These two images came from the web... grabbed 'em off the Usenet Replayer I think. Unfortunately I don't know where these
photos were taken or who took them.


Here's a few shots taken of 44-7619 by my Dad. I need to rescan these, as they're bad scans which I tried to clean up before I knew
what the heck I was doing in Photoshop. So they fit right in with the 'Bad/Old Photos' theme. Anyone care to guess the where
and when of these?








Fade to Black...

Steve
Batavia? Around 1995?

Tim

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Nope. I was there and that P-40 was not. Assuming of course you are talking about the Wings of Eagles Air Show.
http://community.webshots.com/album/475020069HPnasg

Mike

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Ooh, you guys are good.

I am no good at this location guessing. Kalamazoo would be too easy but it looks like it could be.

As for the old configuration, I believe I heard somewhere that the canopy was the rear piece of a T-33 unit, put on backwards, with a custom windscreen.

The picture at the top of this thread was taken at Ontario CA (Tallmantz) and the date was Sept. 16, 1969.

Check out that yellow CTV-2 Gorgon missile in the lower right corner. This was sort of an American equivalent to the V-1 (although not a direct copy like the Loon) intended for pre-invasion softening up of Japan. It's missing the pulse jet engine which fit on top of the fuselage and fin.

August

Are you sure it isn't Ontario when Planes of Fame was there?

The P-40 was owned by Ed Maloney at the time, and he was operating out of Ontario so I guess that makes sense!

Thanks for posting these photos gentlemen. Always cool to see some "images of the past"

T J

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Well, I guess I'm not as clueless on locations as I thought. Ontario would have been my choice based on the registry info and
a little 'edjmucated' guessing... oh well!

As an aside, I was doing searches for the CTV-2 to help pin down the location but found very little, unfortunately. Anyone
have any photos of this particular example?


Back to the Hawk...

That canopy... my first thought was also a T-33 hood (the registry says F-80, which it clearly is not) but I would think that
it's installed 'correctly'... that is, not backwards. The angle of the frame is right... but then I look at the curvature of the glass
and I get all mixed up!! LOL

Anyhoo, the photos of Sue Parish in her pink P-40 would probably be impossible to identify unless you were there or
were intimately familiar with the location.

'Twas Niagara Falls in 1982.


Fade to Black...

Yes, I erred in saying Tallmantz before; the slide is labeled "Ont. Air Museum".

Tallmantz was then in Orange County, correct?



It is possible that Dick took some better shots of the CTV-2 that same day. I have to go check his "Rockets & Missiles" binder.

Time for Kittyhawk #3 (see new thread). People seem to like these old pics, and I'm learning a lot, so I'll post one per weekday until someone makes me stop.

August