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Re: Diemert P-40? WTF?

Posted by Mark Munzel on Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:29:06 PM

In reply top Diemert P-40? WTF? posted by Olivier Lacombe on Tue Dec 16, 2003 08:18:30 PM

: Outside was a P-40, AVG markings.
: It looked like it had Lancaster cowlings (!!) instead of
: what you'd found on P-40s. Round spinner, paddle blades
: like a Lanc III and the rest associated with the bomber.

Actually, it's an Avro Tudor cowling, IIRC. And the empennage was from a T-6.

I'm sure somebody else can add more .... Didn't this a/c crash on its delivery flight?

-M.M.

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