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In the early 40's Col. Chennault came to Curtiss in Buffalo to look at the P-40s with my Grandfather. Bill Pawley, president of the Intercontinent Corp. had meet with the VP of Curtiss, Burdette Wright and some others. The US government was having Curtiss divert "100" P-40s from the English...

fibus , I never heard of any rejected engines going in these planes but what Elvis says maybe true and was planned that way. It could be that these engines could have been on the first run on the assembly line with minor flaws and put into airplane that had the same minor flaws as well. Thus...

I'm new to this site and actually stumbled upon it looking for something. Very nice posts by all and the research or experience you all must have done to collect the data regarding the P40's from the 1st XP40 to the very last XP40Q or the name she was given, (Suzy-Q). Lots of what I'm reading is...