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WW2 Crashed P-40 found in amazing condition

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WW2 Crashed P-40 found in amazing condition

Nothing like a dry desert climate to preserve an aircraft.   Check out the pictures in this story.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.u...red-Sahara-desert.html
 

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    Here is a link to an interesting story in the U.K. Mail.com, with many photos, of an RAF P-40 aircraft which crashed in the Sahara Desert in 1942:  www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142300/Crashed-plane-Second-World-War-pilot-Dennis-Copping-discovered-Sahara-desert.html  The remarkably intact aircraft as recently discovered some 200 miles from the nearest habitation.  The British airman who flew the plane evidently survived the crash, but is thought to have perished trying to walk-out of the desert.
     
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    Anthony J. Mireles
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    This has been discussed on WIX for weeks:
     
    A huge thread:
     
    http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45278
     
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