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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7822

Just another day at Mitchel Field Long Island, NY ...

Any idea what the open hatches are for?

Curtiss P-40B Warhawk being refueled Mitchel Field Long Island NY Dec 5th 1941

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:55 pm

Looks like that's where the hoses and such are stored. I've seen a similar setup before out in West Texas.

Dana M Bell · **Joined:** Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:30 am **Posts:** 37

Hi Mark,

I love that photo, particularly for the odd combination of markings. Still, I once spent three days trying to figure out the "refueling" - only to determine that the photo was posed in the extreme. All the P-40-CU refueling positions were on the left wing root, not the right.

Cheers,

Dana

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:34 am

I went digging in my old flight records trying to remember where I saw that and I think the airport I remember that kind of setup being at is possibly Sonora, TX. I think that is where I used a similar fuel point based on this satellite view:

https://what3words.com/hesitate.reshape.stubborn

lucky52 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:47 am

I used the underground refuel hose in Sonora in 2012 (Jet A) but last year it was sealed over and they had a hose reel on the tank,IIRC.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 16, 2019 10:21 am

lucky52 wrote:

I used the underground refuel hose in Sonora in 2012 (Jet A) but last year it was sealed over and they had a hose reel on the tank,IIRC.

That's about when I used the 100LL there. Half a decade ago? Where has the time gone!

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