Looking at a V12 Allison Motor from a Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk that crashed in the Wainuiomata hills in 1943.Other parts of the plane are scattered around the hills and are always moving due to slips and floods over the decades.
V12 Allison Motor from Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
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