The pilot, Flt Sgt Dennis Copping, was flying ET574 — which had its undercarriage locked down — alongside another P-40 from the landing ground at Biur el Beheira to No 53 Recovery and Service Unit at Wadi Natrun, where the two faulty aircraft were due to be repaired while the rest of the unit retreated from the advancing Afrika Korps.

2018年1月12日 · After several years of speculation concerning its whereabouts, a combat-veteran Curtiss Kittyhawk has again resurfaced in Egypt. The aircraft in question, Kittyhawk Mk.IA …

Type: P.40 Kittyhawk III. Serial: ET574. Code: HS-B. Location: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt. Pilot: Fl/Sgt. Dennis Charles Hughmore Copping 785025 RAFVR Age 24. Missing. REASON FOR LOSS: Took off to deliver the aircraft to have repairs to the undercarriage. It is understood that this had a problem as it could not be retracted.

2023年2月9日 · Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping, a 24-year-old British pilot, was part of the 260 Squadron of the RAF Volunteer Reserves flying the P-40 Kittyhawks. In June 1942, Copping was tasked to fly one of the P-40s (serial code ET574) on a ferry flight to a neighboring British airbase to have the undercarriage repaired.

2024年6月20日 · In June of 1942, Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping, a 24-year-old British pilot, who was part of the 260 Squadron of the RAF Volunteer Reserves was tasked with flying P-40 Kittyhawk (serial code ET574), on a ferry flight to a neighboring British airbase to have the undercarriage repaired.

2016年4月21日 · Museum bosses “paid” a salvage team an original Spitfire from their collection to retrieve a Second World War RAF Kittyhawk P40 plane that was found intact in the Sahara Desert 70 years after it crashed.

2014年6月16日 · There were rumors that the museum had arranged to trade a Spitfire aircraft for the P-40. The P-40 Kittyhawk HS-B ET574 appears to have disappeared for a second time, and the current Egyptian political situation would seem …

2021年4月6日 · Asisbiz profile of USAAF Curtiss P-40 Warhawk for Ubisoft IL2 game series IL2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles (FB), Ace Expansion Pack (AEP), Pacific Fighters (PF), 1946, …

Kittyhawk "HS-B" ET574, found mummified in the Egyptian Western Desert, 2012. Eddie EDWARDS was a distinguished Canadian ace who flew with the Desert Air Force (predominantly as a wing-mate of 3SQN in 239 Wing). The following extract is quoted from the book "Kittyhawk Pilot" (1983), by Michael Lavigne and Jim (" Stocky " or " Eddie ") Edwards.

Dedicated to the Pilot, who was never found.On June 28th 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft let...