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To: Red Badger

Look at the aft end where the wing meets the fuselage...the way it tapers off. Not a P-40, but I suppose it could be a P-39.

If there were more than one picture, we could probably tell.


6 posted on 08/09/2017 9:45:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: rlmorel

I was wrong about the betty. It looks to be single engine. No engine mounts or bracing on the wings. It also looks like the wings were attached kinda high on the fuselage. That has to be the top of the plane because the wings are attached farther down in the rear than in the front.


11 posted on 08/09/2017 9:49:06 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: rlmorel

On the tail it looks like landing gear. The p39 had landing gear in the front I think.


25 posted on 08/09/2017 10:06:19 AM PDT by barmag25
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To: rlmorel

If the nose area is intact and hasn’t lost too much, it would be safe to say it was a tail dragger. No sign of landing gear up front.


38 posted on 08/09/2017 10:27:34 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: rlmorel

No, P-39’s would not have been flying/shot down in that area.

Dauuntless possibly - based on those wing-to-fusalage smooth transitions and the possible dive brake opening under the wings. No wheel/landing gear openings though ??


55 posted on 08/09/2017 12:02:44 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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