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My first diorama - Crash landed P-40B Warhawk
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12-09-24, 11:19 AM
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...nice but a P-40 propellor turns clockwise; in which case, the top prop blade in the diorama should be bending in the opposite direction...unless of course it was a '
deadstick
' landing: in which case, one or more blades should.... be bent back from airflow rotation.
This one still flys out of a small private airfield near my home>
...along with it's occasional P-51 Mustang hangermate:
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In another life, our San Francisco-area P-40 was assigned to the Pacific Theater in World War II. The combat fighter was flown by Captain Ray Melikian
of the 7th Fighter Squadron, a Fresno native who took down three Japanese Zeros. Melikian allowed a friend to borrow his plane in order to conduct a mission. The plane was never returned.
In 1969 the wreckage of the plane was discovered in a jungle in New Guinea with skeletal remains in it. The plane still contained Melikian's signature on the side of it. After the war, the P-40 spent time in a junkyard in Australia before eventually making its way to the US, where North Bay Aisonomar Museum Chief Pilot Chris Prevost spent nine years carefully rebuilding and restoring the warbird to mint condition. Now based in the heart of California’s wine country, the fighter is one of few P-40 Warhawks still flying today. It has a full cockpit added for a passenger and is capable of flying more than 350 mph and performing the same fighting maneuvers that conquered enemy aircraft long ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Melikian
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