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Almost Perfectly Preserved’ WWII Fighter Discovered in Sahara Desert — 70 Years After Disappearing
The Blaze ^ | 05/10/12 | Becket Adams

Posted on 05/11/2012 9:07:30 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

It’s not quite the same as the opening sequence to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” but it’s awfully close.

The Daily Mail reports that a Polish oil company worker, Jakub Perka, has discovered an “almost perfectly preserved” Kittyhawk P-40 that crash-landed in the Sahara Desert in 1942.

“Despite the crash impact, most of the aircraft’s cockpit instruments are intact,” according to the report.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: curtiss; curtissp40; desert; kittyhawk; ladybegood; lostplane; p40; unitedkingdom; worldwareleven; worldwarii; wwii
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To: trailhkr1

Canopy appears to be closed.


61 posted on 05/11/2012 10:14:23 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Interesting that the prop was feathered yet under a lot of power when he hit the ground. Loss of oil pressure?


62 posted on 05/11/2012 10:17:23 AM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Several yrs. ago I was in the waiting room of a medical lab waiting my turn.
An old couple walked in. The man wearing a ‘P-51’ emblazoned ball cap.

I went over sat down next to him, thanked him for his service and started talking about the plane.

He told me he loved flying the P-51 but his real love was with the Thunderbolt.
His turn for blood work came up and I talked to his wife for a few minutes.

She told me her husband had told her that if he could have he would have married that P-47.


63 posted on 05/11/2012 10:19:32 AM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I just found it on Google Video for online viewing

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7574338161920794843&hl=en


64 posted on 05/11/2012 10:19:47 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: trailhkr1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7574338161920794843&hl=en


65 posted on 05/11/2012 10:21:01 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: cynwoody

Thanks for the direct link to the original story. Many more pictures here. 200 miles to the nearest town?....Jeez!


66 posted on 05/11/2012 10:22:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Wasn’t there a movie made about that B24?


67 posted on 05/11/2012 10:22:46 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Lowell1775
Next time any of us think we got problems.....think of Sgt. Copping's last few days in earth. May God have rested his soul.

What you said.

68 posted on 05/11/2012 10:23:19 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Disambiguator

Darn. Idaho is a long way from Texas.


69 posted on 05/11/2012 10:23:37 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Boiler Plate

I don’t recall a movie about the B-24 Lady Be Good. Many documentaries were done. Sole Survivor used a B-25 Mitchell bomber.


70 posted on 05/11/2012 10:24:49 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: trailhkr1

I remember that movie!


71 posted on 05/11/2012 10:27:53 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Not Romney - Not ever!)
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To: Clara Lou
Darn. Idaho is a long way from Texas.

Yes, but it's a friendly place. :^)

72 posted on 05/11/2012 10:27:55 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: trailhkr1

I remember that movie as well. The one line I recall was one of the ghosts listening to a Dodgers Baseball game on the radio the “recovery crew” had brought and puzzled by how “they moved Brooklyn to Los Angeles” as though the entire borough had been transported out west not just the team.


73 posted on 05/11/2012 10:30:22 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: unkus
Perfect post for this thread this board

Pilot Ronald Regan does a P40 Warhawk recognition film

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675043014_Japanese-Mitsubishi-A6M-Zero_P-40-Warhawk_Pilot-Ronald-Regan_recognition-and-similarity


74 posted on 05/11/2012 10:32:24 AM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: rlmorel
As I read this thread, I keep thinking of the Twilight zone episode, "King nine will not return".


75 posted on 05/11/2012 10:34:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: freedomlover

Thanks!....I bookmarked it for later...


76 posted on 05/11/2012 10:35:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: cuban leaf

Great pics...gonna have to check that episode out, it has been a long time.


77 posted on 05/11/2012 10:36:39 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: cuban leaf

I remember that Twilight Zone episode also...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Nine_Will_Not_Return


78 posted on 05/11/2012 10:46:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: rlmorel

It’s one of my favorites. It has some excellent plot twists and, as with so many TZ episodes, a great ending.


79 posted on 05/11/2012 10:47:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; Thorliveshere

—I remember that Twilight Zone episode also...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Nine_Will_Not_Return

Hey Thor, the wiki article says the TZ episode was inspired by the discovery of the Lady Be Good B-24. Is that the one in your post?

Looks like this has gone full circle. Discovery inspires show, 53 years later, another discovery harkens back to show.


80 posted on 05/11/2012 10:51:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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