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A Great Plane To Create: The XP-40

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casey jones

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I am reading a new book called "Preemptive Strike" A secret plan to bomb Tokyo in the summer of 1941, it is based on uncovered secret papers from the Naval, Army, archives, it also involves Mr William Pawley the co-creater of the AVG. It covers somewhat the P-40 which was the only American fighter pursuit plane in mass production at the time. I saw pictures of the XP-40 in polished metal...it was a modifed P-36, so I think it would be great to fly the XP-40 in FS9.

Cheers

Casey:salute:
 
I can certainly understand the enthusiasm for the test-bed of the final P-40. You could fly any of the available P-40 aircraft and dumb it down a bit in the airfile or aircraft.cfg. The Curtiss XP-40 was the experimental version, or test aircraft for what was finally known (in America) as the P-40.

An interesting read on the XP-40/P-40
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p40_1.html

XP-40 pic courtesy of wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xp_40.jpg

Full wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40
 
You can always use Bruce Thorsons incredible P-40B. (can't remember where its at anymore), and add this bare metal skin by Smashing time:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=5009
Dont forget the update:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=5042
Smashing Times paint is pretty much just like the photo thedude247 posted.

Edit: Ok, now I remember where to get the plane. http://www.flightsim.com/file.php?cm=SEARCH1&fsec=0&fname=HAWK81B.ZIP
 
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