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P-40 Tomahawk engine start up

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[Sixter01]

How dare you call the Old Warbird a pig! For your information the AVG took The P40 and ran Japan out of China, with there Tails stuck between there legs! Any Warbird that could survive must less "WIN" a Dog fight with a Zero is one Hell of a Airplane!

[tractorpoor]

One of the toughest airplanes to ever take to the skies.

[kabukiwookie]

most beautiful plane..

[ireload2]

Read Saburo Sakai's book.

He said the P-40 was a plane to be feared at low altitude.

The P-38 was to be feared at high altitude.

The F-4U was to be feared at any altitude.

[ireload2]

@raginroadrunner

The Lancasters were so tough they only bombed at night.

The problem with daylight bombing was not the B-17 it was the lack of long range, high altitude fighter escort.

When that arrived the German air force ceased to be effective.

[raginroadrunner]

Hey..the B-17 was a piece of shit!!!..It was a hastily engineered, poorly built death trap. Why did we not swing into making the Avro Lancaster here in the US and got our asses in the war right then???...we dittled and dautled around giving Germany and Japan all of the time they wanted. Just downright "DUMASS"...

[galoon]

@raginroadrunner That's true; despite being armed with many machine guns, the B-17s and B-24s were fairly easy to shoot down. But they weren't junk by any means; plenty of these planes were shot to hell and still brought their crews back--and they downed thousands of German fighters. Until the 2200-2500hp radial engines appeared, it was impossible for any 4-engined bomber to be as fast as a single-engine fighter. Due to their lack of a belly turret, Lancasters were even easier to shoot down.

[raginroadrunner]

I knew a guy tyhat was on the B 17's over Europe...they were sacred shitless of the 109's...the German pilots were the best...and they knew how to bring down our slow, lumbering, clumsy piece of shit airplanes..the British Lancaster was twice the bomber and why we didn't stick with it is a crying shame.. we lost far too many lives as a result of politics wanting to put our people in junk airplanes. Whoever was responsible for using the B 17 was a complete and total idiot...

[deweypug]

@raginroadrunner Still would have made very little difference if the Japanese had the ME-109 - a very large amount of ME-109's were lost during landings and take-offs due to the very narrow and flimsy landing gears - AND that was on improved runways! That number would have been much higher on unimproved runways and Aircraft carrier's, which made up the majority of the Japanese launch sites.

[sgtgrash]

@cbwelch4 I'm not saying the P40 was a total disaster, it had its good points, ruggedness and ease of maintenance being two. I'll admit that I'm not familiar with later versions of the P40 which from the little I've read appear to have had several of the issues I mentioned corrected.

[raginroadrunner]

@cbwelch4  it also fired through the propeller shaft not from the wings...easy to aim ....engineering as it should be...

[raginroadrunner]

@cbwelch4 the narrow landing gear facilitated a quick wing change..it had it's drawbacks but turn around time was awesome.....all in all the 109 was the King and it was a demon in the air..nothing compared to today but back them it was death coming at you...