One cannot but love how the fighter airplanes of the Second World War were tattooed. I mean, how else would we have seen shark-inspired creatures taking to the skies? Officially, the habit of painting ...

Fighter planes are born with a single goal: to suffer hardship as they take their pilots to victory. The Curtiss P-40E we have here had a rough life too, but not on account of fighting, as it was part ...

On October 14, 1938, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engine fighter-bomber took its first soar in the skies as a rugged, adaptable aircraft. After significant modifications that reduced ...

Known by many names, including Hawk, Kittyhawk, Tomahawk and Warhawk, by the end of the Second World War, some thirty-one variants of the P-40 were developed, and the aircraft saw service in every ...

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. Razor teeth, ...

In the midst of World War II, Curtiss sought to remain a leading aircraft manufacturer by developing fighter planes that could compete with advanced designs from other countries. This quest led to the ...

Test pilot Mike Burke used one word to the describe the inaugural fight of the tribute plane the Bonnie Kaye, a World War II-era Curtiss P-40N Warhawk style fighter that was built in a 10-year ...

The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, Steuben County, is creating its own version of Frankenstein’s monster. The museum is working to re-create the iconic World War II-era Curtiss P-40 fighter ...

Whether it was the Tomahawk, Warhawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 was a successful and versatile fighter aircraft during the first half of World War II. The shark-mouthed Tomahawks that General ...

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 ...