Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly ...
Some time ago, we took a trip to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Central New York, where museum staff had managed to piece together the remains of two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks that'd collided mid-air ...
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 ...
IN the darkest days of World War II, a fighter pilot took to the air. He never came home. Seventy years later, the "Tutankhamun's tomb" of aviation history has been recovered. It was 1942. Germany's ...