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From "Stalin's Falcons: Exposing the Myth of Soviet Aerial Superiority Over the Luftwaffe in WW2" by Dmitry Zubov, Air World, 2024. The...

I agree a good image would be fine. However the manuals to which mjfur posted links above, show the pilot's main panels with the coolant...

Thnx. Seems that neither the layout of the cutouts on the instrument panel nor the presence of the additional landing gear warning light...

Post #28, P-40 Flight Manual Page 6 & 7 of the pdf, F- has Warning Horn, L- has Indicator Light, but says location is upper left of...

With all due respect, a photo of the instrument panel of a clearly identified P-40F/L with the same compass location would be...

Drendel (p.57): Kinzey (p.40):

You can make inquiries about the restored P-40Es from photos in books by Drendel and Kinzey.

3784 according to unreliable sources.

Rodeike found 69, Nowarra even less. 23 - according to reliable sources.

From "Focke-Wulf Fw 190 - Ta 182. Entwicklung. Technik. Einsatz" by Heinz Nowarra, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1988 (2.Auflage)

Sorry, but it is definitely P-40E. The layout of the instrument cutouts is completely consistent with the P-40E panel and completely...

The date is wrong: the annual "Kieler Woche" (Kiel Week) event takes place in the last week in June. Ashigara passed through the Suez...

T-37A with the hull manufactured at the Podolsk plant.

You may look for statistics of Ki.61 kamikaze attacks of armored ships. The results for the Bf.109 should be quite similar. However, I...

The I-153 project (i.e., "I-15 modification 3") was approved in November 1937, and the first flight took place in August 1938; serial...