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Post by Officer Crabtree on Jul 8, 2011 18:49:15 GMT 12
Wow, all those corsairs...
Great pics, the peak of our air force.
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Post by Tony on Jul 14, 2011 23:01:14 GMT 12
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Post by phas3e on Jul 19, 2011 21:29:14 GMT 12
The only one I have which isnt common  serial unknown |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 19, 2011 21:56:22 GMT 12
Nice shot. It looks to be a P-40N at maybe Ohakea?
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Post by Tony on Jul 20, 2011 3:10:42 GMT 12
Nice shot. It looks to be a P-40N at maybe Ohakea? White and red(?) Spinner. Looks like a re-paint - no Pacific insignia, white stripes or tail feathers |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 21, 2011 22:34:02 GMT 12
These come from Bill Edhouses's collection, a rather scruffy couple of Warhawks, possibly at Whenuapai I think.  A nice study of Umslopogaas  And a very nice one in the islands somewhere. Does anyone know who the pilot is?  |
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Post by Tony on Jul 21, 2011 22:52:22 GMT 12
Flt Lt John Day (Dunedin) 16 Squadron, Espiritu Santos, 1943
(Cover photo for Fighters by Leo White)
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 21, 2011 23:15:05 GMT 12
Well done. I thought I'd seen it before.
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Post by Tony on Jul 21, 2011 23:25:11 GMT 12
Speculation:
That top picture from the Bill Edhouses collection shows a N-1.
There appears to be a number under the exhaust stack and using reversed imaging it seems to be 696.
Anyone ever seen this type of marking on a P-40 before?
Is it a 'last 3' from the USAAF serial or c/n?
If it is the USAAF serial then it comes back to NZ3133 (42-104696)
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Post by corsair67 on Jul 21, 2011 23:44:14 GMT 12
Flt Lt John Day (Dunedin) 16 Squadron, Espiritu Santos, 1943 (Cover photo for Fighters by Leo White) Is that the 'Jack' Day who set a speed record by flying a Corsair from Auckland(?) to Dunedin(?) postwar? By the way, great photos, everyone.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2011 0:02:34 GMT 12
Tony, the number chalked onto the cowl is upside-down (probably chalked on whilst on the work bench or off the aircraft at least) and is 267. I assume the aircraft is NZ3267, a P-40N.
I note on the tail of the aircraft beside it you can clearly see the US-style camo on the rudder where it has blotches on the edge to break up the outline. You don't often see that on RNZAF P-40's.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2011 0:26:29 GMT 12
Craig, the pilot in the photo is Sqn Ldr John Ronald Day MBE, DFC, AE. Service No. NZ1292. He served as an instructor for the first two and a half years of the war and then went on to fight in P-40's with No. 16 Squadron, credited with one Japanese aircraft. Then he was made a test pilot for newly assembled aircraft. Afetr the war he flew Mustangs with No. 4 (TAF) Squadron. He served in the RNZAF and TAF from 1939-1956. It mat well be the same chap who flew the record breaking flight.
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Post by Tony on Jul 22, 2011 14:17:37 GMT 12
Tony, the number chalked onto the cowl is upside-down (probably chalked on whilst on the work bench or off the aircraft at least) and is 267. I assume the aircraft is NZ3267, a P-40N. I note on the tail of the aircraft beside it you can clearly see the US-style camo on the rudder where it has blotches on the edge to break up the outline. You don't often see that on RNZAF P-40's. NZ3267 is a N-20. The one in the photograph is a N-1 (without the cutdown rear). I noticed the camo style on the rudder as well and wondered when (and if) the P-40's were supplied to NZ with the Star and Bar - or were the painted with roundels before we received them. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2011 14:31:33 GMT 12
I think all of ours came from British orders with the roundels, apart from the P-40E and P-40K aircraft picked up by No. 15 Squadron in Tonga. I wonder if the rudder was changed in the islands and this is from American stores or off a wreck.
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Post by Damon on Jul 22, 2011 14:42:59 GMT 12
Roundels and other particular markings would have been applied here in N.Z by the various servicing units.
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Post by alanw on Jul 22, 2011 15:16:46 GMT 12
Roundels and other particular markings would have been applied here in N.Z by the various servicing units. P40 E's arrived with Roundels in place already, my understanding is that, the British MAP (Min. Aircraft Production) ordered aircraft were painted not only in US Equivalent Camo paints but markings as well. I enquired some months ago about RNZAF P 40's and the paint schemes, Barf from the RNZAF Museum mentioned that the roundels on the E's were US DuPont Insignia colours. RAF P 40 unloaded in Great Britain  Brewster Buffalo in Singapore  Regards Alan |
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Post by Damon on Jul 22, 2011 15:47:45 GMT 12
Dave, the picture of the P-40 under the palm trees ,the person standing on the wing is FLT LT John Day of 16 Squadron ,Espiritu Santo 1943. According to 'Fighters' by Leo White.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2011 17:20:14 GMT 12
Thanks Damon, yes we have discussed him on the previous page, and above.
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Post by Damon on Jul 22, 2011 17:22:22 GMT 12
Yes, just conferming :-)
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Post by hairy on Jul 22, 2011 17:32:44 GMT 12
I noticed the camo style on the rudder as well and wondered when (and if) the P-40's were supplied to NZ with the Satr and Bar - or were the painted with reoundels before we received them. Going by this photo of NZ3136 with the star showing through the weathered paint  and this one of NZ3264  I'd say that some were delivered with the at least the star from the star and bar.  |
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