Curtiss TP 40 N First Flight in 4 1, 2 Years

I recently got a chance to try a test flight in our TP40N If you ll remember, the last time I flew it, FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO, the landing gear didn t want to come up so I immediately put it down and landed safely. I had already bellied in my other P40E due to a problem and didn t want a repeat episode. I decided not to fly this one again until we reinstalled an original emergency system, which for some reason in the past was taken out This involved having special components made, pulling the fuel