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2012-06-17

P40 found in the Sahara : Remembering Dennis Copping

Everyone remember the incredible history of the Kittyhawk found recently in the desert between Egypt and Lybia. Here is more about the pilot of this aircraft.


This subject is not directly linked to aviation in Belgium but anyone interested in aviation will be interested by the story and the quality of the publications of our Canadian friends. A real tribute.

Forwarded message From: Vintage Wings 

Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators

Vintage Wings of Canada will honour lost Kittyhawk pilot, Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping throughout the 2012 flying season. To learn how we will do this, follow this link:
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/365/language/en-CA/Hero.aspx

If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know.
Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada



2012-04-27

More about the P-40 found in Egypt


































Some time in 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft letter “B” settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid. Perhaps low on fuel, perhaps lost, or with mechanical problems, the RAF pilot chose to land in the vast North African Sahara. He extended his landing gear, flared low over the sand and settled onto it. The gear snapped off, the desert camouflaged P-40 collapsed onto its belly and slid for a hundred meters or more shedding its radiators and propeller hub.

Read the full article at http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/357/language/en-CA/Original-Kittyhawk-HS-B-Discovered.aspx


Thx Bob for sharing

2012-04-19

[vintage-and-warbirds] Key publishing Forum P-40 found in the Sahara

Forwarded message From: Steve Link

 
A couple of interesting links in this posting..one about a P-40 found in the
Sahara and the other further down about Bill Lancaster who was Lost in the
Sahara After Attempting to Break the England-Cape Town Flight Speed Record.

The P-40 is just too much!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116221

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2012-03-29

LIFE magazine March 30th 1942 AVG Flying Tigers

Forwarded message marc loriaux

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Thx Marc



Interesting article and one I can actually relate (sort of) to.  When I returned from my year in Southeast Asia (66-67) I went back to school at the U of Minnesota.  I rented the upstairs of a small house in St. Paul from a sweet little lady by the name of Marie Haywood.  I had been living there for several months and had an occasion to be in her living room when I saw hanging on the wall a Nationalist Chinese flag, a AVG banner, and several other pieces of memorabilia obviously Flying Tiger related.  Naturally my interest was aroused and I asked about them.  Turns out that her son, Tom, was a pilot for the AVG and survived his "tour" in China and returned with this stuff.  Marie was widowed and lived there with her daughter but I never saw anyone else there.  I asked where Tom was and she said he was living in California and working for Flying Tiger Air Transport Services ( can't recall if that was the actual name).  He was a pilot for them until he had a heart attack and was grounded but continued in some other capacity.  She had a book that had been written about the Flying Tigers and she let me read it and it had several pictures and "mentions" in it about him.  We have a museum here in Nampa (Boise Area) called the Warhawk Museum with the main emphasis on WWII and the P-40 aircraft.  They have several of these aircraft and, as I understand, they were part of the filming of Tora, Tora, Tora. It has a lot of P-40 and AVG memorabilia and there is one picture of a group of guys and Tom Haywood is in it.  Anyway, interesting and it was good to revisit that piece of history.