P-40s at Chino

BlackWolf3945 · 06-22-2005, 07:43 AM

Sometime back, Mike Offutt posted some shots he had taken at the Chino airshow over on another forum. Mike was kind enough to send me a buncha shots of the P-40s that were at the show and gave me the nod to put them on my P-40 site.

Here's one of them...

This particular P-40 was owned by a fella here in Western New York and I was able to get quite familiar with the aircraft over the course of ten years or so. Unfortunately, it suffered an engine failure, was bellied in and extensively damaged. Subsequently it was sold and is now flying again. She is currently owned by Tony Banta.

The rest of Mike's P-40 photos can be seen here...

Curtiss P-40s at the 2005 Planes of Fame Airshow

Fade to Black...

P38 Pilot · 06-22-2005, 07:58 AM

I admire the bravery of the Flying tigers.with the p40s they changed combat into a choas for the japanese! I wish i could meet a flying tiger pilot! But the sad thing is that a lot of people dont even know whose these brave men are!! And that gets me MAD! I mean these men were fighting the japs before america got into the war! They were heroes to the Chinese Civilions! An then alot of them stayed in the war once america got invoveled! These men were true heroes and god bless them all!

Wildcat · 06-22-2005, 08:10 AM

What's your website address BlackWolf?

cheddar cheese · 06-22-2005, 08:13 AM

Quote:

The rest of Mike's P-40 photos can be seen here...

Curtiss P-40s at the 2005 Planes of Fame Airshow

Go back to his post and locate what I have highlighted in bold, and click that. Its a link

Wildcat · 06-22-2005, 08:18 AM

Cheers!

P38 Pilot · 06-22-2005, 08:43 AM

Agreed! They are awesome photos!

sunny91 · 06-27-2005, 05:41 PM

super blackwolf..

sunny

P38 Pilot · 06-27-2005, 06:13 PM

Have any of you guys seen the movie made about the Flying Tigers? Ive heard its a great movie!

Wildcat · 06-27-2005, 07:17 PM

The flying tigers with John Wayne? yeah it's alright, not great through..

P38 Pilot · 06-28-2005, 08:49 AM

Again, those are some awesome photos!!! John Wayne is in the Flying

Tigers movie? WOW! That is a movie i have to see!!!! :P John Wayne

was a awesome, patriotic actor that did some great WWII fliks!

NAVAIR · 08-31-2005, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by P38 Pilot

I admire the bravery of the Flying tigers.with the p40s they changed combat into a choas for the japanese! I wish i could meet a flying tiger pilot! But the sad thing is that a lot of people dont even know whose these brave men are!! And that gets me MAD! I mean these men were fighting the japs before america got into the war! They were heroes to the Chinese Civilions! An then alot of them stayed in the war once america got invoveled! These men were true heroes and god bless them all!

For the record, the AVG didn't get into combat until two weeks AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack.

I can count two former Flying Tigers as friends, Dick Rossi and Chuck Baisden. Not long ago, another friend, Erik Shilling, passed away. I have a lot of material from these gents on my website at http://www.aerial-combat.com

My regards,

NAVAIR

syscom3 · 08-31-2005, 11:16 PM

Here is a never before seen pix taken from the ground of a P40 shooting down a Zero fighter.

Well, actually, it was P40 vs Zero at the 2004 Chino airshow..... hehehhehehehe

Nonskimmer · 09-01-2005, 04:05 AM

It's a nice pic anyway.

jrk · 09-06-2005, 06:58 AM

just going back to the film the flying tigers.looking at several angles of the p-40s while flying a few look like they were spitfires in australian markings.

JCS · 09-06-2005, 04:50 PM

I remember one clip that was definately spitfires but it was too dark to see the markings. I think it was in the part where they were on night patrol.