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Offline Slade

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P-40 PSA
« on: February 17, 2016, 11:36:15 AM »
This is just for educational purposes (and maybe a bit of silliness)...

The P-40 remains the preeminent air superiority fighter of this game.  It out rolls and has better viz than Spits.  It remains unhampered by excess speed and climb rates that plague so many late war birds.  Most must agree a Spit16 or LA7 are simply a P-40 with training wheels.  Why not take them off?

Probably the main reason there are so many other non-P-40 planes is because it provides a wide array of targets to shoot down for the P-40.

Please share you crushing victories here at the hands of your P-40.
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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2016, 11:57:33 AM »
I'll add the first entry.  I upped a P-40 once and noticed 5 cons at an enemy base.

Need I say more gentlemen.  Need I say more!  :old:
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Offline Hungry

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2016, 12:00:22 PM »
Slade

Right now I feel like a lost soul looking for his ride, Thanks I'll give it a try

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2016, 01:06:24 PM »
109F > P40


or vertically displayed.


109F


Whale crap


P40



Luftwaffe uber alles.
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Offline oakranger

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2016, 01:52:31 PM »
Quote from: Zoney on February 17, 2016, 01:06:24 PM
109F > P40


or vertically displayed.


109F


Whale crap


P40



Luftwaffe uber alles.

I agree what Johnson says!
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Offline caldera

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2016, 01:57:26 PM »
P-40?  What sort of thing is that?   :headscratch:
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Offline Zimme83

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2016, 04:59:47 PM »
P-40 is a series of manned target drones Specifically designed for AH.
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Offline BuckShot

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2016, 10:22:41 AM »
The P-40N is so powerful and nimble that it needs 3 500lb bombs to make it controllable.
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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2016, 10:54:06 AM »
Quote from: Slade on February 17, 2016, 11:36:15 AM

Please share you crushing victories here at the hands of your P-40.



2,000 + (ego) crushing victories.   :ahand

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2016, 09:52:33 AM »
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Offline Vraciu

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2016, 10:05:40 AM »
Whenever I see a P-40 I kill it, even if something easier to clobber is around. 

It is my personal vengeance against Curtiss for trying to get NAA to build those dump trucks instead of my P-51. 

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Had it been the other way around perhaps Curtiss wouldn't have gone out of airplane-building so swiftly after the war.

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2016, 04:34:27 PM »
don't normally do the look at me thing and check out those achievement things and I noticed I need 2 more kills in a P40. 

This thread has inspired me to claim that achievement and wear the P40 badge with pride.   
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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2016, 05:59:50 PM »
A P-40 w a later merlin would not have been that bad. But i can understand that they dropped the P-40 in favour of P-47 and P-51. But in the ground attack role it can be usefull even in AH. P-40N w 3x500lbs boms is a good Gv-hunter.
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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2016, 06:11:02 PM »
The P-40 is the honey badger of airplanes:

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Re: P-40 PSA
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2016, 06:18:01 PM »
Also, remember that the USAAF cancelled the little-known P-40FU since it was thought to be too unsporting to deploy such a dominant aircraft against our enemies.  Instead, a downgraded version, with a different fuselage, wing, tail section, engine, and gun package, is what became the Bearcat.
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