Un P-40 de la WW2 retrouvé dans le désert egyptien

[alexandreVBCI]

Happy Friday. To kick this weekend off early check out this video of a newly discovered RAF Curtis P-40 Warhawk that has sat undiscovered in near perfect condition in the Sahara Desert in Egypt since crash-landing there during World War II.

The American-made P-40 was being flown by its RAF pilot, a 24-year old Flight Sgt. Dennis Copping, to a British base in Northern Eygpt for repairs when it suffered engine trouble and Copping made a crash landing 200-miles from the nearest town. Poor Copping tried to repair the engine and shelter himself from the deadly sun with his parachute, but his efforts were to no avail and he died somewhere in the desert.

The plane, one of thousand of P-40s made for the U.S. and its allies, was discovered recently by a Polish oil company worker and it’s remarkably intact. The video below shows the cockpit and ammo looking almost new, certainly not 70 years old.

Now, the P-40 is supposedly going to be shipped to the RAF museum in the UK but museum officials had better act quickly since scavengers are already beginning to remove parts from the aircraft!

Vidéo :

http://defensetech.org/2012/05/11/hurry-up-and-save-this-newly-discovered-p-40/

[Drakene]

RIP à ce pauvre pilote tombé dans un coin ou presque personne n'est passé pendant 70ans  :-[

Y a pas à dire ça conserve bien le désert, c'est incroyable qu'il n'est pas été retrouvé avant.

Finalement l'espoir de voir des coins de terres encore inexplorés livrer leurs secrets n'est peut-être pas perdu malgré nos satellites et autres technologies modernes  =)

[Luner21]

Un bel appareil qui pourra être restauré et exposé quelque part. Le désert, ça conserve ;-)

Par contre, oui, RIP au pauvre pilote dont la fin ne fut pas géniale...