P-40

[XBe02Drvr]

Great pic!!!

Another one, North American factory producing P-40s in 1940

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Looks like pix I've seen of the old downtown Buffalo Curtiss plant. Check the Niagara Frontier website. They had a street out beyond the parking lot they used as a runway to fly their newly hatched birds out to the airport for testing and USAAC acceptance. Busy Air Corps facility, as they were also taking delivery of spanking new Airacobras from the Bell plant at Niagara, just up the river.
Curtiss, Bell, Grumman, Republic, and Fairchild in New York; Pratt and Whitney, Ham Standard, and Chance Vought in Connecticut; Eastern Aero and Wright in New Jersey: there was a major chunk of the US aircraft industry in this little corner of the country.
Cheers
Wes

 

[Venturi]

I don't see it that way.
My way (as much as it can look preposterous) is that when I see a statement that I consider wrong, and can reasonably source it, I dispute the statement - regardles to where it came 1st from.

That statement is disputed few posts after.

Looks like pix I've seen of the old downtown Buffalo Curtiss plant. Check the Niagara Frontier website. They had a street out beyond the parking lot they used as a runway to fly their newly hatched birds out to the airport for testing and USAAC acceptance. Busy Air Corps facility, as they were also taking delivery of spanking new Airacobras from the Bell plant at Niagara, just up the river.
Curtiss, Bell, Grumman, Republic, and Fairchild in New York; Pratt and Whitney, Ham Standard, and Chance Vought in Connecticut; Eastern Aero and Wright in New Jersey: there was a major chunk of the US aircraft industry in this little corner of the country.
Cheers
Wes

Well I'm sure you guys are right. Just relaying what the captions say. Next photos, no captions. After all it's just more typing for me and the pics are much more interesting.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[MiTasol]

To say there are some great photos here is an understatement.

I am about to go through them to try and find photos of the following RAAF aircraft

A29-39, 51, 140, 154.

If anyone has photos of these particular aircraft I would love to see them - doubly so if they show the cockpit to firewall area.

Thanks to all who have posted and all that will post in future

 

[johnbr]

One-half right rear view, close up, from low angle, of Curtiss P-40K Warhawk (s/n 42-9758) of the 26th Fighter Squadron (26FS), 51st Fighter Group (FG) on the ground somewhere in China. Sgt. Elmer J. Pence, squatting on left wing root, paints a second Japanese kill marking on the side of the aircraft while a small monkey seated on the nose of the P-40 plays with a paintbrush.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[johnbr]

Curtiss XP-40 Warhawk The first of a long line, this Curtiss XP-40 fighter underwent drag reduction tests in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in 1939. This aircraft was modified from a P-36 airframe with the addition of an Allison liquid-cooled V-1710 engine.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice.

 

[johnbr]

Six U.S. Army Air Force pursuit pilots wearing seat-type parachutes 'responding to a practice alert' are approaching 11 Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, ca. 1941.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

formal portrait of U.S. Army Air Forces pilot wearing A-6 boots, B-3 jacket, A-3 trousers, B-7 goggles, and an A-8 oxygen mask, arm around propeller of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, standing on grass, 1941.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[fubar57]

Great shots John

 

[Micdrow]

I think its time for a few more P-40's

 

[Micdrow]

 

[Wurger]

A great set of images Paul.

 

[ArmouredSprue]

Brazilian Air Force used several P-40's during and after WWII.
During WWII they were based in the Northeast of Brazil in Natal (Parnamirim Air base) and were used to patrol the South Atlantic for submarines.
The first lot of P-40E received was suppose to be for RAF and they were camouflaged in Land Temperate Scheme. You can see in the photo below how the national insignia was painted over the RAF roundel.

Brazilian Air Force operated a large number of P-40's ranging from E to N versions.

This following photo shows an aircraft that was abandoned in ITA (Instituto de Tecnologia Aeronáutica) late 60's

 

[Micdrow]

Great shots, many thanks