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Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« on: April 19, 2012, 01:57:08 AM »
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 03:59:30 AM »
Are thoes gun barrels sticking out of the wing ports ? , looks like she has layed un molested since what looks to be a forced landing 70 years or so ago , she looks pretty well preserved as well...sweet , I love this kinda stuff , cheers Phas3e.
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 04:24:54 AM »
:o i hope the poor pilot survived.. clearly yes in forced landing, but after, right in the middle of sahara.. :(
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 05:47:13 AM »
Nice find. I was just thinking if you tint the sky a bit orange-ish it could read Kittyhawk found on mars.
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 06:05:58 AM »
Anyone knows where it is ? Algeria ? I cant read in that link  :P
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 02:05:33 PM »
If you look closly, you will realize that P-40 didn't land on rocks 70 years agoif so there would be alot more damage.
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 02:09:51 PM »
Well, these rocks arent really high (for the planes size), and it was a belly landing so it is quite possible.
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 02:45:08 PM »
Makes me wonder if it wasn't burried in shifting sands for a while... surely if anyone knew it was there they would have tried to pull it apart it for the guns and aluminum....
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 02:57:55 PM »
It probably was far from caravan routes. It's a great fossil! Looks like pilot had just run away, but if he was far from routes...
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 02:59:07 PM »
the only corrosion damage it would have taken is the paint being stripped by endless dust storms, it wouldn't rust!
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 03:12:01 PM »
I won't believe it till we know exactly where this picture comes from who took it and when.
If I had found such a treasure I think I would have taken some more shots from it ...

Until then I keep on dreaming it's true and really hope the pilot could saved himself.

The amount of rocks on the place and the light damage sustained by this aircraft makes me wonder...

Nobody here to translate ... ?

Sonny  :)
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Re: Kittyhawk found in the Sahara
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 03:37:38 PM »
Ok, I try to translate it.  ;)

"My friend works in the company looking for oil and gas on Sahara. However recently they found something completely other…"

"The plane lay so much years troubled  by nobody. The Finders informed RAF about the wreck and they probably identified this plane, but nobody knows why it was in this concrete place. Perhaps for the some time the riddle will be solved."

"Just quite good toy."

"I think it is Curtiss P-40 "Kittyhawk"/or "the Tomahawk"/ - whose were equipmented units of RAF in West Africa in 1943."

"What a pitty there is no side photo - we could try to decode the unit."

"When we would hammer out, we could make two F-16s and piece of Hercules..."

"Holly shit!! Please more informations and pictures :-)"

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