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Curtiss Wright P40 Production In Buffalo Photographer: Dmitri Kessel


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Freakin cool! Thanks! :D

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Great photos. Is that Cyrillic writing that Curtiss was using in some of the photos? :wink:

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Great Shot!

Those Life guys have some fantastic equipment.

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The inflight formation shot is reverse printed. Not Cyrrilic, if that's the one you are referring to.

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

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Absolutely beautiful...... what color! Some of those images look like they were taken yesterday..... WOW! Alan

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

Again, reversed image from original. Great stuff!

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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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