Can anyone recommend a source of information on this particular group of early P40s please? I am particularly interested in what special adaptions the French had requested.
I went to the National Archives today, but could not find any specific mention in the files.
Thanks in advance
By: Flying_Pencil - 15th January 2018 at 15:52
Yes I had read somewhere that about that time French aircraft had their throttle setups working in the opposite way around I.e forward for closed and backward for open. You’ve just confirmed that I hadn’t imagined it Dave
Yes, all backwards.
I guess the reason is, if one has hard landing, the throttle lever would be slammed forward, closed.
By: Whitley_Project - 15th January 2018 at 15:23
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I am trying to confirm this throttle part was used in one of the French P40s. It is identical to those used in the French Curtiss Hawk 75s. It would be logical for it to have been carried over to the early P40s as the cockpits were pretty much the same as far as I can see. Can anyone confirm please?
By: Seafire - 15th January 2018 at 13:49
I AM interested- wasn’t aware of that volume- thanks!
bob
By: bearoutwest - 15th January 2018 at 05:42
If anyone’s interested, there is a small booklet by Hugh Harkins on the operational use of the Tomahawk with the RAF in Europe (c.1941).
https://www.bookdepository.com/Tomahawk-III-Combat-Log-Hugh-Harkins/9781903630495?ref=grid-view&qid=1515991956301&sr=1-33
(If the link doesn’t work try searching for Hugh Harkins & Tomahawk in Book Depository or Amazon or other good bookshops.)
…geoff
By: Rocketeer - 14th January 2018 at 23:03
Several instruments were marked in French. I have a wing tank gauge from a H81A that came down on the Plain. Marked aile for wing
By: Sopwith - 14th January 2018 at 18:23
Yes I had read somewhere that about that time French aircraft had their throttle setups working in the opposite way around I.e forward for closed and backward for open. You’ve just confirmed that I hadn’t imagined it Dave
By: Dave Hadfield - 14th January 2018 at 14:40
The throttles worked the wrong way.
Very disconcerting, that.
By: grahame knott - 14th January 2018 at 13:54
Might be worth talking with Selwyn Williams Elliott, the P40 on Chesil beach was the French variant and I know he has recently done a lot of work on this aircrafts history as well as that of the pilot. If you message me I can pass on his details if you wish.
By: avion ancien - 14th January 2018 at 13:12
Perhaps try asking the question on http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/forumhist/index.php (do try in French but many of the regular contributors have good English).
By: Meddle - 13th January 2018 at 23:06
If they were for the French then presumably they were LHD? :highly_amused:
By: scotavia - 13th January 2018 at 22:36
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