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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
Its not quite the same as the opening sequence to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but its 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 aircrafts 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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P-47 fans really need to see
this internet archive of www.rareybird.com, a former tribute website put together by a Jug pilot's son. The son passed away a few years ago now and I guess the remaining family members weren't interested in maintaining the site. All that's left of it now is what was copied by the Wayback Machine. The P-47 stuff begins in Volume III.
George Rarey was a talented amateur cartoonist, as the illustrations from his journal show. The archives caught most of that stuff, thankfully.
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