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Re: WW Directory 4 makes sence now!

Posted by Steven M Dennis on Thu Dec 18, 2003 07:39:30 AM

In reply top WW Directory 4 makes sence now! posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:31:01 AM

Paul,

I think you are right on with the double entries for the modified P-40E in the WD 4th edition. I believe that they are one and the same aircraft.

What is interesting is that the listing for Ron Fagen's P-40E, "AK753"/N4420K, states that it is an ex-russian crash site bird which came from the Tom Wilson/Brooks Aviation outfit down in Griffin Georgia. I have read a couple of different small articles in two different magazines stating that this plane actually was the one built up by a disillusioned soul up in Canada named Granger Taylor. His story is quite interesting, and I don't know a lot about it, but he was a firm believer in life on other planets, and one night he told his folks that he was going to be picked up by a U.F.O., and he got in his truck and drove off, never to be heard from again. I guess they found his truck hidden deep in the woods somewhere, all burnt up, some time later. No sign of him.

At any rate, he, supposedly, is the one who should be credited with building up this bird from a canadian junkyard using bits and pieces from whatever he could find. And not Mr Diemert, who acquired it after his disappearance.

Maybe Dick Phillips could also confirm this story for us????

I would be interested to find out which story is correct, and if indeed the aircraft has been listed twice in the directory.

I love a good mystery!

Steve :o)


: There is also an 'unknown' P-40 under Diemert
:
: ? P-40E (to RCAF as ? ) static restoration
: project using wings purchased in CA, T-6 tailplane,
: rear fuse ex Bolingbroke, Merlin & cowlings from
: Avro York: engine runs, displ. in RCAF scheme
: at antique shop) Bob Diemert, Carman MAN 82/87
:
: it then adds... (probably connected with AK863/N7205A abov
: e)
:
: I think this last bit is a mistake/typo..
:
: However, it is should probably be connected 15134 P-40E AK
: 753 N4420K with Ron J. Fagen as this states
:
: "composite restoration in Canada using Bolingbroke rear fu
: seage Harvard tail, Merlin engine, reported flew as such:
: but AK753 not to RCAF: USCR quotes id. "AK75315134")"
:
: So the issues are:
:
: a) What is the correct ID as AK753 is not an ex RCAF machi
: ne?
:
: b) I remember a P-40 crashing that was linked to Diemert w
: as it one of the above or another? - The second one does s
: eem likely as it is 'reported to have flown' as such

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