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They operated under pretty austere conditions in China & Burma.
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
Excellent references pics. You'd have to imagine that flaps would be dropped at some point on the ground. It's amazing how dirty those things are.
Some Flying Tiger P-40s....
Looks like they were usually up... but not always as the maintainence shot shows...
I read elsewhere that the flaps were immediately retracted on touchdown because they would impede ground handling by cutting airflow to the tail. Now I don't know how true that is, nor would I suggest you let any perceived "accuracy" stop you from dropping them if that's what you want to do.
Yes, and not quite as much of an improvement over the Allison engined P-40 to justify discontinuing production and improvements to those.
To be precise, those are P-40F's with the Packard Merlins. There is no upper nose scoop. Before the famous mating of a Merlin to a P-51A
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Actually that one is a USAAF P-40. In North Africa, they fin flash and red spinner were used as theater ID markings, adapted from the RAF. The sand scheme was stricctly USAAF, whereas the Dark Earth and Midstone scheme was for Lend Lease or USAAF.
Thanx guys.
Stick, that is a cool pic of an ex RAF P-40 with the star painted on. I see they even left the RAF fin flash on :-)
Theuns
The flaps and center landing gear doors on the P-51 are hydrolically actuated and when the engine is shut down they "bleed down". IIR the flaps in the P-40 are mechanical lever actuated.
I cant answer about the actuator system, but these photos here appear to show them all retracted while on the ground.
Did the P-40B 's flaps have individual actuator rods to each of the flap ribs from a central "torque rod" to push the flaps down like on the AT-6 flaps, or was it only actuated from the front hind position?
Also would the flaps on the P-40 be down usually while on the ground like P-51's or retracted while in the desert?
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