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 ...

At the Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Victoria, a historic, fully restored Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk, serial number A29-90, was unveiled on March 23 2025. The rare aircraft, with a notable combat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warbirds Over Wanaka Flying Scholarship winner Michael Williams is struggling to come back down to earth after having the opportunity to fly a classic ‘heavy metal’ WWII fighter. Michael, already an ...

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 ...

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 ...

FURY has erupted after a 'lost' World War Two plane went on display in Egypt - five years after the RAF Museum spent £200,000 of taxpayers' cash to bring it back to Britain. The P-40 Kittyhawk was ...