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Nathan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:22 am

hey Ryan,

Yeah I am pretty much ameture I guess. :oops:

But doing historical research like on us-aircraft.com I can come up with a picture of how something was and or could have been. The P-40 is my favorite. Yeah perhaps I am bias but I really do take all that I have read and researched and I come up with a picture much different then what most people give to the P-40.

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Quite the contrary. I'm saying that the P-40 is very similar in performance to the Mustang - something not often alluded to. I wasn't bashing the P-40 at all, I'm merely saying that for two roughly equivalent airframes, the experience and training of the pilots will often determine the victor in the dogfight, that's all.

Oh no warbird1. Sorry I didn't mean that you were bashing the P-40. No hard feelings sir.

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

Nathan wrote:

hey Ryan,

Yeah I am pretty much ameture I guess. :oops:

But doing historical research like on us-aircraft.com I can come up with a picture of how something was and or could have been. The P-40 is my favorite. Yeah perhaps I am bias but I really do take all that I have read and researched and I come up with a picture much different then what most people give to the P-40.

Quote:

Quite the contrary. I'm saying that the P-40 is very similar in performance to the Mustang - something not often alluded to. I wasn't bashing the P-40 at all, I'm merely saying that for two roughly equivalent airframes, the experience and training of the pilots will often determine the victor in the dogfight, that's all.

Oh no warbird1. Sorry I didn't mean that you were bashing the P-40. No hard feelings sir.

No worries dude and btw, don't call me sir! We're all equals here in this forum with no person more important than any other!

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:13 pm

All in good fun Nathan! I AM quite curious what the whole point of the original post was... seems like it's not very fair to tease like that without details OR pictures. Oh, and one L-5 is better than TWO original P-51s OR P-40s! :mrgreen:

(Ask me to explain that one! :shock:

)

Ryan

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:29 pm

RyanShort1 wrote:

All in good fun Nathan! I AM quite curious what the whole point of the original post was... seems like it's not very fair to tease like that without details OR pictures. Oh, and one L-5 is better than TWO original P-51s OR P-40s! :mrgreen:

(Ask me to explain that one! :shock:

)

Ryan

There is an L-5 based at Elmira. Here it is:

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