Although many models of the P-40 were built, the model series was officially given the general name "P-40 Warhawk," making all planes off the P-40 series P-40 Warhawks, although British and Soviet air forces gave the Warhawk the name "Tomahawk" for any models equivalent to the P-40B...
The P-40 Warhawk was among the most widely seen and used fighters of World War II, yet it’s often overshadowed in modern-day literature by readily recognized names likeLightning,ThunderboltandMustang. One reason the P-40 may have been largely dismissed in the history books: It looked b...
The P-40E saw extensive combat in the Pacific theatre, China, and North Africa. [Expand]Archive of the in-game description Media Skins Skins and camouflages for the P-40E-1 (USSR) from live.warthunder.com. See also Related development ...
P-40s were manufactured by the least-respected of all the major airframers, the East Coast Curtiss-Wright, with whom the War Department would have preferred not to do business after a series of below-par designs and a spate of defective Wright engines.Stephan Wilkinson...
The Curtiss P-40 was a workhorse, much like theHawker Hurricaneand served in almost every theater of the Second World War. Both praised and vilified, the fact remains it bore much of the brunt of the air warfare over many battle fronts. For lack of a dependable supercharger,1it was des...
There is a very valid third reason I hold P-40s in such high esteem that is not always found to be nearly so highly appreciated by fervent followers, supporters, and aficionados of World War II U.S. fighter aircraft. True, my P-40 Warhawk page is pretty straight forward, sticking to ...
40 Warhawk, the P-36 saw little combat with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was nevertheless the fighter used most extensively and successfully by the French Armee de l’air during the Battle of France. The P-36 was also ordered by the governments of the ...
While ferrying a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, he was shot down over Timor and listed as Missing in Action. He eventually made his way to Allied territory. A few months later, Christian, while flying a Bell P-400 Airacobra with the 67th Pursuit Squadron, was the first U.S. Army Air Corps ...
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With its tricycle landing gear, nose-mounted cannon and 1,300-horsepower Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder in-line engine mounted behind the pilot and turning the propeller via a long driveshaft, the P-39 was better looking than theCurtiss P-40 Warhawk, which used the same engi...