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1  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40’s Today / Re: cowling drawings on: October 09, 2011, 11:48:51 AM
Believe it or not Curtiss’ engine mount blueprint drawing for the early V-1710C15 “longnose” engine used in the H81/P40cu/B/C/Tomahawk have been posted on this site for a very long time but the drawing are lablen for H87 part number for the later H87/P40
I have a very clear copy of this engine mount blueprint drawing and while marked H87-001 they also say is for the P40B,C  and V-1710-C15 engine and the mount points match the H81/P40cu/B/C/Tomahawk not the later H87/P40
Here is a close up of the lower right corner on the drawing below showing the mount is for the P40B,C ...V-1710-C15
 
Im also looking for engine cowl drawings for the H81/P40cu/B/C/Tomahawk if you find please let me know



2  P-40 Warhawk Forums / General Discussion / Re: turkish P-40B/C on: August 10, 2010, 07:32:48 AM
Does this help? (Note the british type (cranked) pitot tube and antenna mast)
http://www.tayyareci.com/digerucaklar/turkiye/1923ve50/images/Tomahawk%20Curtiss%20P-40.jpg
3  P-40 Warhawk Forums / General Discussion / Re: turkish P-40B/C on: July 11, 2010, 04:20:17 PM
I haven't looked alot in to the Turkish H81.. but from photos look to be not P-40B/C but early Tomahawks so british type (cranked) pitot tube and antenna setup and antenna mast on the fuselage
4  P-40 Warhawk Forums / General Discussion / Re: P-40B/C nose guns - where did the spent shells go? on: April 24, 2010, 11:29:28 AM
There were two setups

The nose guns on both the H75(P36) and H81(P40cu/B/C) had chutes for the spent shell casing that went out the bottom of the wing …

1. The chutes could dump in to a bay in the under belling faring and the shell casing would collect in, These had an access door that could be opened on the ground after landing to empty and collect the shell casing brass (Less common peace time, non/combat setup)

Or

2. The access door in the belling faring could be removed the chutes extended so the shell casing would just dump out bottom as the guns fired (common setup) 
5  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40’s in WWII / Re: 4th Air Force P-40s station in Southern California, 1942 on: March 24, 2010, 09:25:10 AM
Did any P40’s even get scrambled? ...it was most all massive AA fire over Los Angeles I’m not sure they would want to put friendly up in the mess and the nearest P40's may of been at March Field in Riverside….
(My Dad was 30 years old, an Los Angeles native, and in the Army in Los Angeles at the time and watch the whole bloody thing…told me downtown Long Beach was a wreck from all the falling AA shells)
6  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40’s in WWII / WOW! all time greatest pic stash of early P40/Tomahawk ...run don't walk.. on: November 20, 2008, 09:47:39 AM
Just pages and pages of super hi quality photos of early P40/Tomahawk under construction at the factory...  this  put you average Scale and Detail workaround to shame
 
Go to http://images.google.com/hosted/life
p-40 source:life

Just a sample
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=p-40+source:life&imgurl=7040d83cf1918feb
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=p-40+source:life&imgurl=35428761599e1613
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=p-40+source:life&imgurl=38a4c3ae0c3549bc
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=p-40+source:life&imgurl=b05ce3474510590e
7  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Re: Detail and measurement article on the early “Longnose” P40/Tomahawk on: July 13, 2008, 10:21:40 AM
Ive posted a rev 2 of “Long Nose Hawks” over on rapidshare.com in both word 97-2003 and RTF
This will be a lot clear then the pdf doc

Long Nose Hawks parts 1 & 2 rev2 in word97-2003.doc
http://rapidshare.com/files/129264874/Long_Nose_Hawks_parts_1_2_rev_2_in_word_97-2003.doc
Size: 8011 KB 

Long Nose Hawks parts 1 & 2 rev2 in RTF.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/129267442/Long_Nose_Hawks_parts_1_2_rev_2_in_RTF.zip
 Size: 29587 KB

I regards to two questions I’ve seen posted 
I use the name “Long Nose”  and  “Short Nose”  really in reference to the engine  used in the Curtiss H-81  vs  the Curtiss H-87

The gear case in the V1710C is relatively unique as WW2 liquid cool “V” go and the Curtiss H-81 was the only major production aircraft to use it, and redesign of the Curtiss H-81 in to the Curtiss H-87 was driven in part to accommodate the new V1710E and it shorter “conventional”  liquid cool “V” gear case.

In reference to the  wind screen, the plexglass is in three parts but there is no frame between the  pieces  but just butt jointed  look at the head on shot down in the

“Fuselage firewall to tail section”
But a far  better head on shot  of the wind screed can be found in Eagle Files #4 Tigers over China, The Aircraft of the A.V.G.  clearly showing the three butt jointed  pieces .
8  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Re: Detail and measurement article on the early “Longnose” P40/Tomahawk on: July 12, 2008, 10:09:30 AM
This is some fabulous information!  Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together.  If you would like it hosted here, just let me know.
I' love to have you hosted it thanks for the offer... give me a few days as im doing a update edit.
9  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Re: P-40B/C 1/24 on: July 07, 2008, 09:20:09 AM
Hello Alex

Ive got the detail and measurement article on the early “Longnose” P40/Tomahawk posted that shown some of the wing gun layout

A hi res version is at http://www.freewebs.com/p40-tomahawk/

A low res version in PDF is posted on Hyperscale http://downloads.hyperscale.com/longnosehawks_download.html
10  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Detail and measurement article on the early “Longnose” P40/Tomahawk on: July 07, 2008, 09:15:29 AM
Hello  I’ve done a short detail and measurement article on the early “Longnose” P40/Tomahawk

A low res version in PDF is posted on Hyperscale http://downloads.hyperscale.com/longnosehawks_download.html

I also posted a hi res version at http://www.freewebs.com/p40-tomahawk/

Some of the things it goes over are
•   The wing gun layout shown on most ever book, drawing, and model has the total wrong.
•   That there is a completely new seat type never listed before and all the AVG aircraft used it.
•   That there is some major detail on the right side engine cowl that seems to be almost completely unknown.

Take a look a see what you think
11  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Re: P-40B/C gunbays and Cutaway pictures request on: June 02, 2008, 03:52:37 PM
Hey Alex

I just wanted to give you a heads up on the seat and seat mount, if you’re doing a US P40 then the seat and seat mount is correct

However, the RAF and AVG aircraft they used a different seat and seat mount setup setup (the seat is the same as the first RAF Mustangs) 

My article should appear in the next few days on over on Hyperscale… I go over the different seats the wing gun setup and other things
12  P-40 Warhawk Forums / P-40 Models / Re: P-40B/C gunbays and Cutaway pictures request on: May 12, 2008, 07:26:24 AM
I 've spent about two year' s trying to get a good handle on the P40 B wing guns arrangement. There really very little to see but most of the info out there on the wing gun bay set up on the early P40 wing is way wrong. 

If you can wait a week or so I’m prepping a small detail article on the early P40 with a lot of new detail info for one of the modeling sites  …it will include a very basic wing gun layout with the correct one and two gun wing setup

It might not  be the level of detail your hoping for but it will be better then what you commonly find and correct a lot of misinformation.

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