And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Look up the P-40-Q. Several prototypes were built (from the last of the P-40-Ns airframes) including one with a bubble canopy in 1944. Performance was enhanced but still inferior to current Mustangs and Thunderbolts. This was the last attempt to improve the Warhawk models. From War Planes of the Second World War by William Green, Volume IV of Fighters. Small books, small print, loads of info.
Never quite reached the "bubble canopy" stage of evolution like its cousins the P-47 and P-51
ReplyDeleteLook up the P-40-Q. Several prototypes were built (from the last of the P-40-Ns airframes) including one with a bubble canopy in 1944. Performance was enhanced but still inferior to current Mustangs and Thunderbolts. This was the last attempt to improve the Warhawk models.
DeleteFrom War Planes of the Second World War by William Green, Volume IV of Fighters. Small books, small print, loads of info.
Those are a lot of happy airplanes, CW.
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