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P-40E into a K


Eli Raphael

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And dive duly done.  As far as I can see the main difference between the E and the K was the engine.  As an aside, the longer tail came in with the P-40K-10-CU, before that was the short tail with a fillet.

 

The E's engine was a V-1710-39, the K was powered by a V-1710-73; I am not an engine expert so I have no idea what the differences were, sorry.  Both could carry a centre-line tank or bomb, both carried 6 x 0.5" guns.  Externally, I think the only noticeable difference was the early K's fin fillet.

 

This comes from a spreadsheet I put together of P-40 variants way back in my 1:48 days: my main sources for that were www.p40warhawk.com and the IPMS Stockholm site.  My spreadsheet and therefore this info may well be incomplete, so anyone more knowledgeable than I reading this, please do chip in.  Nevertheless, hope this is helpful.

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35 minutes ago, MikeC said:

And dive duly done.  As far as I can see the main difference between the E and the K was the engine.  As an aside, the longer tail came in with the P-40K-10-CU, before that was the short tail with a fillet.

 

The E's engine was a V-1710-39, the K was powered by a V-1710-73; I am not an engine expert so I have no idea what the differences were, sorry.  Both could carry a centre-line tank or bomb, both carried 6 x 0.5" guns.  Externally, I think the only noticeable difference was the early K's fin fillet.

 

This comes from a spreadsheet I put together of P-40 variants way back in my 1:48 days: my main sources for that were www.p40warhawk.com and the IPMS Stockholm site.  My spreadsheet and therefore this info may well be incomplete, so anyone more knowledgeable than I reading this, please do chip in.  Nevertheless, hope this is helpful.

Thanking you, Mike

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2 hours ago, MikeC said:

As far as I can see the main difference between the E and the K was the engine.

The engine was different, but not visibly so.

 

The early "short tail" K had a much wider fin, not just a 'fillet'. This is the early K fin:

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Compare that to the E fin (which was structurally the same as that used on the later "long tail" versions):

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Hasegawa provided different parts for the aft fuselage/fin to cover the E, K and also the later "long tail" versions. 

 

HTH,

D

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