Thanks for the link IceFire, very interesting read.
JtD, I guess I totally missed that the rear tank was not filled. So max gross weight, as listed in the test documents, could be exceeded simply by filling the tanks? I'll have to ponder that.
I've always wondered how things would have worked out if Curtiss continued development with larger radial engines instead of the V 1710.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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