TFC Curtiss H-75 Photo Question

Thank’s for the explanations… It’s this explanation i talk about.
My english is so poor … 😮

The last picture printed in the review FANATIQUE DE L’AVIATION, shows the 75-A4 After the war …

Encore merci compatriote !! 😉

According to few “specialist” of french Air force, this Curtiss would not be a 75 but a 751 re-engined. It carries just the same number. They haven’t the same history …

In fact, even one of the previous owners of the Curtiss remains said in a recent letter to a french magazine (Avions November 204 issue) that the only data plate he had ever found refered to Curtiss H-75 A4 n°82 (H-75 A-4 and H-751 being the same thing), which was stored in the french Antillas during WWII and only delivered to France after WWII, serving as a fighter trainer until being discarted in the late 40’s and used as a ground target at Cazaux, and the remains rescued years later. It seems that the Curtiss H-75 A1 n° 82 depicted in the 1939 picture did not survive WWII, and even possibly 1940….

Interesting debate. What were the differences between the H-75 and H-751?

Veltro

According to few “specialist” of french Air force, this Curtiss would not be a 75 but a 751 re-engined. It carries just the same number. They haven’t the same history …

http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/forumhist/aff.php?nummsg=12930

Any informations about that ?

The latest issue of LE FANA DE L’AVIATION has an inflight photo of the unarmed no. 82, clearly legible on the rudder, in service with the 4th Escadrille of the Cazaux fighter school in 1948 or 1949. The photo is credited to “BA 120”.

Veltro

No, the photo I saw was just planes, it was from the front and above/left side, mostly just of our little Hawk but you could see bits and pieces of other planes in the background, if I recall…but no people…

Mark

Paul,

Check your mail 😉

Are there 4 or 5 men in the background, 2 with white shirts and 1 with his shirt rolled up the sleaves?

If so it is the same picture!

Thanks!

In the new issue of “Air Classics’ there is a photo of the plane in service with the French, on an airfield surrounded by others of it’s type, apparently the only photo of it that exists from the WWII period, or so the caption said….

Mark