[ARC5] P-40 Found In Desert

[J. Forster]

Could be.

He could also have not been thinking straight after a desert crash.

-John

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> Just possibly the pilot was a REAL ham who knew what he was doing.   This
> was back when you had to know something, including code to get a  ticket,
> not
> just read a book and memorize the answers they were looking  for.
>
> Flame on........
>
> 73,
>
> John,  W4AWM
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> In a message dated 5/11/2012 3:12:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jfor at quikus.com writes:
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> "The  radio and batteries were out of the plane and it looks like he tried
> to get  it working."
>
> I find that somewhat strange. Aircraft radios don't just  have two power
> wires and an antenna. Unless the 'plane's harness was  chopped up in the
> crash, I'd have thought the chances of getting the radio  working would be
> much better in the plane.
>
> It's a feat that I'd find  taxing with just a knife and no other tools.
>
> Maybe some nomads came by  in the intervening years and removed, then
> abandoned thye  stuff?
>
> -John
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>> The  discovery of the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk in the Sahara Desert was
>>  described by one military historian as "the aviation equivalent of
>>  Tutankhamun's Tomb."
>>
>> A remarkably well-preserved fighter plane  that crashed in the Sahara
>> Desert during World War II has been found  70 years later, shedding new
>> light on the pilot's struggle to  survive.
>>
>> "The radio and batteries were out of the plane and it  looks like he
>> tried
>> to get it working. If he died at the side of the  plane his remains
>> would
>> have been found."
>>
>> I hope that  details of the radios will be forthcoming!
>>
>>  Wayne
>>
>> WB5WSV
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