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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 recently stumbled upon a wrecked World War II fighter plane that's been sitting in the Sahara Desert unmolested for the past 70 years. Both Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping and the ...

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 ...

This is the story of James Francis Edwards, the Canadian RAF Ace that flew the P-40 Kittyhawk in North Africa during World ...

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

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 ...