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Showing posts with label Wrecks and Relics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wrecks and Relics. Show all posts

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

2012-01-29

Aviation Photography - Tanagra relics


Forwarded message ---------- From: JACOBS Vincent

http://www.targeta.co.uk/tanagra_relics.htm

Wrecks and relics in Greece

2012-01-11

New book nieuwe boekpublicatie Dutch Military Wrecks and Relics by Pieter Plomp


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pieter Plomp


Beste boekenliefhebber,


Graag kondig ik de publicatie van mijn nieuwe boek "Dutch Military Wrecks and Relics" aan op http://www.unibook.com.
Meer informatie over dit boek is te vinden op http://www.unibook.com/nl/Pieter-Plomp/Dutch-Military-Wrecks-and-Relics
waar je het ook online kan kopen. Of je kan eerst een fragment uit het boek lezen, het boek behandeld niet alleen Nederland,
maar ook Belgie en Luxemburg.


Met vriendelijke groeten, Pieter Plomp

Dutch Military Wrecks and Relics Pieter Plomp

Korte Inhoud : Former military aircraft that are preserved or in use as instructional airframes in The Netherland, Belgium or Luxembourgh.



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Taal : Engels
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