In all, the P-40 proved itself a worthy and rugged fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was the third most widely produced ...

Curtiss P-40E-1-CU (Model 87A-4), Warhawk ... Oregon and is registered to Jack Erickson’s “P40 Kittyhawk LLC” company, where it is airworthy and painted as serial number 41-13521 (I did ...

Its Infamous Smile Today, it is almost impossible to see a surviving Curtiss P-40 without the infamous “shark smile” painted on the front. And most who know anything about World War II would ...

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 ...

If the North American P-51 Mustang was the LeBron James of World War II American fighters, you can think of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk as almost like Carmello Anthony. Undoubtedly a lethal and ...

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.

If you haven’t heard the name Flying Tigers, you might recognize their planes. They flew US-made Curtiss P-40 Warhawks painted with a menacing looking shark-mouth design that eventually became ...

Truman’s next punch was directed more at AAF judgment than at Curtiss: “The [Curtiss] P-40 fighter planes have performed valuable work on the various fighting fronts, but were relatively ...

With the war raging in Europe, the British Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation (NAA) in 1940 and asked them to produce the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk under license. The NAA ...