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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Originally Posted by t6dpilot
Hey, what about the P-40? I am starting to feel a little slighted here.  |
Its back there with the P-39. Its lack of high altitude fighting ability is what hurt the P-40. The later models with a Merlin engine were much better but by that time there were newer airplanes that could do more.
Reason why it has a place in history is that it was available, and in descent numbers, when needed. It was a good airplane in the Pacific theatre early in the war (Flying Tigers) but the ME-109 would have eaten them alive in the European war.
Still a very nice looking bird.
They will always have a place in history because of these men:
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