Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Frozen in the sands of time -WWII Kittyhawk P40

Frozen in the sands of time -WWII Kittyhawk P40:
Frozen in the sands of time

Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara… 70 years after it crashed in the desertPilot of the Kittyhawk P-40 was thought to have survived crash, but died trying to walk out of the desert

Aircraft was found almost perfectly preserved, unseen and untouched, after it came down in 1942

Historian describes find as ‘an incredible time capsule’ and ‘the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb’
By Paul Harris
He was hundreds of miles from civilisation, lost in the burning heat of the desert.

Second World War Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping took what little he could from the RAF Kittyhawk he had just crash-landed, then wandered into the emptiness.

From that day in June 1942 the mystery of what happened to the dentist’s son from Southend was lost, in every sense, in the sands of time.

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