Friday, February 19, 2021

Curtiss P-40s being assembled at the Bell Aviation plant in Buffalo, NY.

 


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  1. Dependable workhorse of a fighter. If I'm not mistaken, one 'Hawk version or the other served every allied nation in every theatre. The Flying Tiger version was also my first plastic model airplane kit.

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  2. Probably pre-Pearl Harbor. By 1942 a lot of those workers would be female.

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    1. Yes, pre-WWII. After Pearl Harbor the red circle was eliminated from the insignia to avoid confusion with the Japanese "meatball".

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    2. The red circle wasn't eliminated until mid to late May of '42; we were still sporting the "meatball" at the Battle of Coral Sea from 4-8 May.

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    3. Certainly pre-Pearl - we had already switched production to the P-40E version by mid to late 1941 (IIRC the last of the P-40B and -C models had been built by May or so of '41)

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  3. I think those are P-40B's

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  4. Might be a reversed picture. An inspection hatch and 2-prop on hangered a.c. are reversed!

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    1. It is reversed, read the lettering on the table in left foreground.

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  5. Sunny day in Buffalo, NY! Wonder how much outdoor work was done when it was 5 degrees in blowing snow?

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