Warbird Information Exchange

Here's something to start the year off with a bang!! John Fallis sent me some great shots of his P-40N Warhawk under
restoration in Louisianna. All I can say is WOW!!! This /ac served in the 8th FS 49th FG and is a genuine combat vet.
I'm working on some good authentic markings from the 8th to give John some ideas for the paint scheme.



John Fallis with his prize.

Don't see this one in the registry. What is the source of the airframe?

Don't see this one in the registry. What is the source of the airframe?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p40registry/p40-42104959.html

Thanks Jack! She's a beauty. Another PNG recovery gone right.

I thought this was the one at LSU?

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=10367

My dad played on it in the 50's. It was right by the clock tower and then stored in the stadium until the USS KIDD museum displayed it as "Joy". IIRC

Registry says N49FG recovered PNG in 1974, this can't be the same airframe.

Any pics of the LSU Flying Tiger when it was at LSU?

Was this one of the OD / Grey schemed P40s with the 49 FG, or one of the later, light-coloured ones Jack?

I've been trying to get to the bottom of the scheme carried by the light-coloured ones - were they painted silver, light grey (as I've been told by an owner of one) or stripped back to bare metal?

Another ex-49 FG machine, 42-105306 (incidentally, missing from the registry) is being restored by Chris Prevost at Schellville, CA. He is converting it to TP-40N spec (and is now the registered holder of the Type Certificate for the TP-40N), and is making a beautiful job of it. Apparently the original pilot is still alive in the LA area, but is not a fan of the P-40, much preferring the P-38, so hasn't been to visit the project sadly.

http://members.cox.net/barryair/p40n%20rebuild.htm

I'm so confused!

OK...What's a TP-40?

Mudge the ignorant

Mudge wrote:OK...What's a TP-40?

Mudge the ignorant

A dual-control P-40.

Mudge wrote:OK...What's a TP-40?

Mudge the ignorant

It's a P-40 built for two! Kermit has a very nice one, so does John Paul.

OK...What's a TP-40?

Trainer-dual controls ie TF-51, T-28 or T-6
I like John Paul's better has it says true to the lines of the original.

Well, me! I was just in Lafayette over the holidays!

Wade

HMMMM...Built for 2 you say.
All I can say is HMMM...I wonder....

Mudge the hummer

Rogue,
This IS the LSU P-40N. Your dad must be mistaken has to the dates. This is what I recieved from John Fallis
about the history of his airplane.

Mine was given to LSU in about 1980 by David Tallichet and then they gave it to the Louisiana Naval Memorial Museum
and hung there in their museum until I aquired it in 1998. I replaced it with a movie prop replica from "Tora Tora Tora".
It was a fiberglass replica which I rebuilt. It is hanging there today and is hard to tell it is not real. Of course I gave a
sizable donation to boot. All that was there was the fusealage and basic wings, the rest was fiberglass done by Tallichet.

Jack Cook wrote:This IS the LSU P-40N.

No mistake, He told me about it long before 1980.

I also heard rumors of a P-40 in the stadium for years before the KIDD museum.

Also this is from the link above:
Back many years ago I had heard of a P-40 airplane that was standing gate guard duty at the Louisiana State University Engineering Department triangle. Eventually the airplane was disasembled and placed in the a storeroom under the LSU stadium for many years. After that, when the City of Baton Rouge decided to have a navy destoryer brought to town and form a Navy Museum, the airplane fell into the museums hands. Sometime after that, a deal was struck whereas the airplane would be traded off for a mock up/static display P-40, plus a sizable monotary contrubution to the museum. So, now the airplane ends up in Lafayette, Louisiana. All the skins have been removed and new skins, ribs, spars, bulkheads, firewall, and so on are being installed after being cloned or purchased.The engine will be overhauled and all systems made ready to have a safe, flyable P-40N .. I am fortunate enough to have been invited to work on this historical aircraft and what follows is some history and photos from the project.

The confusion continues!