Pearl Harbor P-40 reel!!! no kidding! 18 of them!

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 10:15 am

Wow...criticlpost has a news reel on a flight of Hawaii P-40's! Looks like I can start back up on "building every pearl harbor P-40 model" now that some more aircraft numbers are known!

YAAAHOOOOOO!!!

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... -formation

P.S. The B-17 is a B-17D model. The "D" model had cowl flaps. The "C" model didn't.

PSS. That was some snap roll in the 260 P-40! :shock:

C VEICH · **Joined:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:40 pm **Posts:** 1471

Looks like Jerry Yagen and Stephen Grey will need to lock the tailwheels down if they want to maintain historical authenticity!

Django · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 12:59 pm

That's awesome.

White spinners? I've never seen that before.

Lightjug · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 1:17 pm

Cool... thanks.

gemmer · **Joined:** Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:54 am **Posts:** 314

No guns mounted on th P-40s yet.

Django · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 3:29 pm

Are you saying the white spinners means they are unarmed?

Skyraiderdriver · **Joined:** Tue May 24, 2011 9:15 am **Posts:** 12

Django wrote:

Are you saying the white spinners means they are unarmed?

Some of the Hawaii based P-40's had white spinners. Not all of them.

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 4:14 pm

Skyraiderdriver wrote:

Django wrote:

Are you saying the white spinners means they are unarmed?

Some of the Hawaii based P-40's had white spinners. Not all of them.

Agreed. There is very little know about the markings worn on Oahu based aircraft. I would suggest this reel is worth a lot to a PH historian like me.

I was once told most P-40's had the white spinner. But there were some without it too by Dec 7th. It makes studying and searching for how and why these markings were applied so much harder. :Hangman:

Franklin · **Joined:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:53 pm **Posts:** 183

Nathan, there are several other videos as well showing some great Hawaii P-40 footage. I've seen some real cool stuff I didn't know existed. Pearl harbor attack footage as well. Takes some time though to find it ..

Franklin · **Joined:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:53 pm **Posts:** 183

gemmer · **Joined:** Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:54 am **Posts:** 314

Django wrote:

Are you saying the white spinners means they are unarmed?

No. Look at the closest a/c when it's in a bank. No .30 cal. barrels protruding from the wings.

Duane

Pathfinder · **Joined:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 587

No meatball in the star....wouldn't this be considerably after the attack?

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