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American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert

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	American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « on: June 24, 2012, 05:34:43 pm »

Hi,

I was randomly going nowhere in particular, but landed on this attached link, and it gave reference to a Kittyhawk found in Eygpt.

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #1 on: June 24, 2012, 05:39:22 pm »

Bummer. That would have been a Bad way to go. Undecided

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #2 on: June 24, 2012, 05:56:53 pm »

This is a clip on you tube of the site.

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Egyptian Desert Kittyhawk - Found March 2012

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #3 on: June 24, 2012, 06:56:01 pm »

I bet Someone SomePlace could use some of those Engine Parts! Cool

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #4 on: June 25, 2012, 02:16:03 am »

If there were guns and ammo aboard, as stated, this was a P-40 Warhawk - not a Kittyhawk. The Kittyhawk was the civilian version of the P-40 with no armament installed. It's mainly used in air shows today but for about 15 years after WWII was over, it was built just for those who wanted to buy one without all the fast pointy things in it. Curtis turned a half full warehouse of partially built P-40s into a commodity rather than scrap them.

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #5 on: June 25, 2012, 06:03:07 am »

I had wondered about war hawk to kitty hawk (guess the clue in the name Embarrassed

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Was also looking for some old footage of them in dog fights like the ones filmed from gunner points of view.
The footage I have seen is crazy. Literally was on a wing and prayer for those guys.

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	Re: American made Kittyhawk P40 wreck found in Sahara desert « Reply #6 on: June 25, 2012, 10:28:02 am »

I'm surprised some one didn't take the guns and Ammo from that one.

People still shoot ammo from WWII.

Things stay pretty well in those environments. Cool

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