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10-05-2004, 01:53 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brisbane
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 | Aerial Placement Just wondering where the aerial wires went on the P-40 and -38J. I normally put cotton string where they leave the wires and I don't have any idea where they go. It's just that there isn't anything potruding from either of them.
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10-08-2004, 01:16 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brisbane
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| Anybody?
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10-08-2004, 11:58 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | There are no visible aerial wires on the P-38J, nor any other model that I know of. We have an L model in our museum with no visible aerial wires. I have seen only one photo of a P-40 with an aerial wire. Different radio set than normal? I don't know for sure, but from what I have seen, I don't think the P-40 had visible aerial wires. I am by no means an expert on the P-40, though. Here is the one shot with an aerial wire.
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11-27-2004, 09:07 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004
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| Early P-40's had aerial wires from the fin to the wingtips. |
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11-27-2004, 10:15 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004
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| P-38's had wires from the top of the fins to the canopy bracing. Both planes needed long aerials because the radios were lousy. |
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11-27-2004, 08:47 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brisbane
Posts: 507
| Aah! Okeydoke then.
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