Curtiss Wright P40 Production In Buffalo

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Curtiss Wright P40 Production In Buffalo

Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:30 am

Curtiss Wright P40 Production In Buffalo Photographer: Dmitri Kessel


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Nathan
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:32 am

Freakin cool! Thanks! :D
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:40 am

Great stuff!
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:58 am

Great photos. Is that Cyrillic writing that Curtiss was using in some of the photos? :wink:
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:43 am

Great Shot!

Those Life guys have some fantastic equipment.

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b29flteng
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:52 am

WOW! (drooling)
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:33 am

The inflight formation shot is reverse printed. Not Cyrrilic, if that's the one you are referring to.
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:12 pm

Couple of those pics, prop is counter rotating?????? Whats up with that???
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P-40

Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:16 pm

Absolutely beautiful...... what color! Some of those images look like they were taken yesterday..... WOW! Alan
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Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:18 pm

N3Njeff wrote:Couple of those pics, prop is counter rotating?????? Whats up with that???

Again, reversed image from original. Great stuff!
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Buffalo shots

Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:50 pm

The last photo outside the factory is a reversed negative. The access door was never on the right side of fuselage

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