Fighter planes are born with a single goal: to suffer hardship as they take their pilots to victory. The Curtiss P-40E we have here had a rough life too, but not on account of fighting, as it was part ...
On this day in aviation history, 87 years ago (October 14, 1938), the Curtiss P-40 took to the skies for the first time. The P-40 was an American single-engine fighter aircraft capable of both air ...
One cannot but love how the fighter airplanes of the Second World War were tattooed. I mean, how else would we have seen shark-inspired creatures taking to the skies? Officially, the habit of painting ...
Known by many names, including Hawk, Kittyhawk, Tomahawk and Warhawk, by the end of the Second World War, some thirty-one variants of the P-40 were developed, and the aircraft saw service in every ...
The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, Steuben County, is creating its own version of Frankenstein’s monster. The museum is working to re-create the iconic World War II-era Curtiss P-40 fighter ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Whether known as the Warhawk, Tomahawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 proved to be a successful, versatile fighter ...
This photo of a dashing Flight Lieutenant Neville Bowker inspired the nose art that has become inescapably linked with the Flying Tigers. It isn’t a smile. It is more a predator’s sneer. Razor teeth, ...
Leased to the Soviets by the US, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk had been underwater for around 70 years A WORLD War II fighter plane shot down during the horrific conflict has been pulled from its watery ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Whether known as the Warhawk, Tomahawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 proved to be a successful, versatile fighter ...