On October 14, 1938, the Curtiss P-40 made its first flight. Known as the Warhawk, Tomahawk, and Kittyhawk, this iconic ...

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 ...

The P-40 Kittyhawk was dubbed "the Mary Rose of WW2" after it crashed in the Sahara in 1942 and was then discovered almost intact 70 years later FURY has erupted after a 'lost' World War Two plane ...

Visitors to the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next Easter are being offered a unique close-up opportunity to see a P-40 Kittyhawk firing its six .50 calibre machine guns. Auckland-based ...

It was 1942. Germany's ace general, Rommel, was steamrollering across the Mediterranean. Britain was yet again on the backfoot. British Flight Sergeant Dennis Copling was tasked with what seemed to be ...

A Polish oil worker out on a survey in the Sahara Desert recently stumbled upon this incredibly well-preserved Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk. Riddled with bullet holes and featuring the tell-tale signs of a ...

The Kittyhawk P-40 has sat in the Egyptian desert for almost 70 years, witnessed only by the slowly shifting sands of time. Time capsule: The Kittyhawk P-40 survived the crash landing in the desert ...

NASM copy 39088008730723 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...