Silence is golden because the Brits. are there, don’t tell anybody.

I would suggest it is a rigging board.

Fabulous Air Museum Krakow, if you like Mig’s you won’t be dissapointed!

Much more to see.

I recall he came to join the Flight but unsure whether he got to fly.

Drawing No. 87-21-705 is for the fuselage assembly P-40E-1, frame 1 to 16 therefore fuselage Serial No. is 1035.
Unfortunately the copy I have of this drawing has been shot as seven different items covering the length of the fuselage and is none to clear.

Beaufighter

Can I ask where you got this information from please??, I ask as this doesn’t match what I have come to learn in my research on Desert Kittyhawk Units.

Can I also ask where your examples are from please……would love to update my desert Kittyhawk information, because again doesn’t match my research. I will say I have come across this in Europe a lot and some RAAF units in the SWPA, but not desert Kitty Units. Also I assume by the armoury you mean the Cam net with the Ammo and table beneath it.

Buz

Buz
I refer you to TO NO. 1-25C-2, Wing Guns, Page 1, Para 1a. Dated 1942.
“First identify all guns by marking, with chalk or paint, their respective location in the airplane to eliminate confusion when preparing the guns for installation.”

This TO covers the Service Instructions for the P-40 Series of a/c. In my experience the RAF used the US manuals, re-numbering as an Air Publication with a pasted label over the front. Maybe RAFM have a copy which you could view. There are 77 pages covering all aspects of P-40 armament.

Beaufighter

instead of degrading this into another bashing the RAFM, failed moves that caused damage, personal insults, and ego stroking discussions etc.

Buz

Uh! Who is bashing RAFM, both incidents had nothing to do with RAFM.
Ego stroking, is that aimed at me? I have never dismantled or erected a P-40, just taken part in the operation of several Mks. of them over the years so all I know is the front from the rear. Recoveries, just a few, but not with the political/logistical problems involved with this one.

The director of the RAFM recently visited “P-40 experts” at Wangarratta who restore P-40’s from the ground up, several of. Therefore he is aware of the wealth of knowledge available and just down the corridor from his office are more P-40 manuals than you need.
“Jungle Bob” of Swamp Ghost fame is well versed in the logistics of difficult recoveries, remember two P-40 recoveries from Vanuatu and his involvement with up to eight others along with Precision Aeropsace the P-40 guys..

There are more opinions about this aircraft than there are posts, let us hope it is recovered for all to view and learn about without vested interests turning it into a bun fight.

Beaufighter – you can be assured they have P40 erection manual, spoken to P40 experts who have worked on then and will know how to take one apart if and when the time comes. Its called forward planning!

Regrettably I have seen the forward planning in action and the aftermath. Spitfire AB910 was recovered from it’s collision in Switzerland by “professionals”. More damage was done in the recovery operation as the crew made their own mind up it would never fly again, why have a plan.
Take a look at the stbd. wing l/e on the Tempest II in the RAF Museum, dropped by the same “professionals”, plenty of forward planning, no technique.

Good to hear the “P-40 experts” are involved.