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	Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IA - The Air Combat Wiki
		Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IA From The Air Combat Wiki
		Durability: The Kittyhawk continued the Curtiss trend of being able to sustain great amounts of battle damage.
		In addition to the improved armament, the "E" model incorporated newer hydraulic gun chargers, which replaced the unreliable mechanical charging system that was generally bypassed in the field.
	wikipedia.ketsujin.com /index.php/Curtiss_Kittyhawk_Mk_IA (533 words)

	Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk A29-133, “Polly” [Australian War Memorial]
		Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk A29-133, “Polly”, on display in Bradbury Aircraft Hall, Australian War Memorial.
		During late 1942 the Kittyhawk was damaged several times while fighting Zeros.
		On 14 April 1943 “Polly” was flown by Squadron Leader Wilfred Arthur against the last major Japanese air attack on Milne Bay.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/kittyhawk/index.htm (206 words)

	Australians at War
		For the rest of the war the Kittyhawk was employed as both a fighter and a ground attack aircraft and ultimately 848 served with the RAAF.
		Kittyhawk was the British Commonwealth designation given to the latter variants of the Curtiss P-40 (P-40 D - N), which was known in the United States as the Warhawk.
		The end of the war effectively marked the end of the Kittyhawk's service with the RAAF and the last examples were retired in March 1946.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/subject_1966.asp (269 words)

	NZFPM \|Curtiss P40K Kittyhawk
		The ’K’ series were produced by the Curtiss plant at Buffalo to a total of 1300 units during the latter part of 1942.
		Kittyhawks were first delivered to New Zealand in 1942 at Hobsonville and were later deployed to the Pacific.
		The Kittyhawk played a significant role in the Pacific, becoming one of the RNZAF’s most important offensive aircraft in the central and northen Solomons campaigns of 1943-1944.
	www.nzfpm.co.nz /article.asp?id=p40k (361 words)

	Curtiss Kittyhawk
		Curtiss Kittyhawk fighters were acquired from the RAF in 1941.
		Eight completed Kittyhawks had to wait in the usa for days before being released to the RCAF, and even worse was the acquisition of spares and ammunition, which not only required american co-operation but that of the RAF, which considered the home RCAF forces of very low priority.
		Kittyhawks were also involved in shooting down Japanese bombing balloons, one confirmed by 133 Squadron Kittyhawks on February 21, 1945, one on March 10, near Sumas and Galiano Island in British Columbia, and one unverified near Strathmore Alberta in this timeframe.
	members.tripod.com /~Silver_Fang/kittyhawk.html (1066 words)

	RCAF.com : The Aircraft : Curtiss KITTYHAWK
		The Curtiss P-40, a development of the radial-engine P-36 and the experimental YP-37, was probably the most widely used fighter of the war.
		Britain diverted 72 of its direct-purchase Kittyhawk is to Canada for use by the RCAF, the intention being to equip a number of squadrons to provide a defensive force within Canada.
		Deliveries, direct from the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, began in October 1941, the squadrons equipped with the type being Nos 14, 111 and 118 and Nos 130, 132 and 133 also flying the Kittyhawk Is later.
	www.rcaf.com /aircraft/fighters/kittyhawk/index.php?name=Kittyhawk (683 words)

	Curtiss Kittyhawk IV airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Kittyhawk was the final development of the monoplane Curtiss Hawk fighters and during the Second World War provided the RAF with valuable reinforcements in the Middle East at a time when British resources were overstretched.
		The Royal Air Force continued to operate Kittyhawks in Italy until the summer of 1944 when they were finally replaced with North American Mustangs.
		Curtiss continued a policy of progressive development and the final production version, the P-40N, appeared after an extensive programme of structural weight saving to provide a higher performance.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /curtiss-kittyhawk-iv.htm (202 words)

	P-40 Warhawk, Curtiss
		The P-40D model introduced a strongly modified nose and a new engine; this version was known as Hawk 87 to the manufacturer and Kittyhawk to the British.
		The Curtiss P-40 was a U.S. single-engine, single-seat, low-wing, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft which first flew in 1938, and was used in great numbers in World War II.
		The P-40's lack of a two-stage supercharger made it inferior to Luftwaffe fighters in high altitude combat, and the P-40 was barely used in the northwest European theater, where the USAAF would eventually be concentrated.
	www.fighter-planes.com /info/p40_warhawk.htm (783 words)

	Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk WWII Fighter Aircraft
		The American Volunteer Group, with their Curtiss P-40 aircraft, were a clandestine operation initiated in secret by President Roosevelt prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		This rare and historic Curtiss P-40E had its first test flight in over 50 years on April 14, 2003 in Auckland, New Zealand, and was displayed at a national airshow, before being shipped back to Virginia.
		The aircraft markings are the same as on the Curtiss P-40E flown by 'Tex' Hill while leading this famous mission on the Salween River Gorge.
	www.fighterfactory.com /airworthy-aircraft/curtiss-p-40.php (935 words)

	Buy Curtiss Kittyhawk DVD
		The Curtiss P-40 series of fighters…the Tomahawk and Kittyhawk (or Warhawk as it was known in the USA) are the subject of this video from Jeff Watson.
		The Kittyhawk was heavy and relatively slow but it was a stable gun platform and excellent in the ground attack role.
		There is archive film of Kittyhawks in North Africa, the Dutch East Indies and with the Flying Tigers in Burma.
	www.chevron.com.au /aviation/aviation_kittyhawk.html (195 words)

	Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk
		Substitution of the modified P-40 for the experimental P-46 was proposed on June 10, 1940, and Curtiss agreed to adapt the basic P-40 to the new engine.
		The Kittyhawk IA was essentially the export equivalent of the P-40E.
		Since the Kittyhawk IA was built with some British equipment, it was not exactly equivalent to the USAAF P-40E, and the Kittyhawk IA was assigned the US designation P-40E-1 (Model 87A-4) to recognize the difference.
	www.nzwarbirds.org.nz /p40a.html (7233 words)

	Curtiss P-40 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The prototype XP-40 was simply a Curtiss P-36 Hawk with its Pratt and Whitney R-1830 (civilian name, Twin Wasp) radial engine replaced by a liquid-cooled, supercharged Allison V-1710 V-12 engine.
		Tomahawk and Kittyhawk squadrons bore the brunt of the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica onslaught in North Africa in the crucial years of 1941 and 1942, playing a critical role in the North African campaign.
		RCAF Kittyhawk Mk I at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Canada.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Curtiss_P-40.htm (0 words)

	Smer (Vista) 1/72 Curtiss P-40K/Kittyhawk Mk.III
		The P-40 was a development of the P-36 with a liquid-cooled engine, known to the manufacturer as Hawk 81 and to the British as Tomahawk.
		Curtiss managed to improve the performance of their airframe by replacing the engine with a Packard-made Rolls Royce Merlin.
		The second is a RAF Kittyhawk Mk.III from No.112 Sqn in the standard Middle East scheme of dark earth and mid stone over azure blue undersides, also based in Tunis, 1943.
	fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/usaaf/p-40k_smer.htm (0 words)

	Airfix 1/72 Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
		The P-40E was known as the Kittyhawk Ia in the hands of the British and Commonwealth forces.
		The Kittyhawks were supplied to the British under a lend-lease agreement from the US and first went into action in the Western Desert against Rommel's forces in 1942.
		Most famous of the Kittyhawks were the No.112 SQN who were the pioneers of wearing shark mouths on the aircraft.
	fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/raf/p-40e_airfix.htm (0 words)

	Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk WWII Fighter Aircraft
		The P-40 Kittyhawk was put into large scale production, because it was the best fighter available to the US Army Air Corps at the time.
		The American Volunteer Group, with their Curtiss P-40 aircraft, were a clandestine operation initiated in secret by President Roosevelt prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		This rare and historic Curtiss P-40E had its first test flight in over 50 years on April 14, 2003 in Auckland, New Zealand, and was displayed at a national airshow, before being shipped back to Virginia.
	www.fighterfactory.net /airworthy-aircraft/curtiss-p-40.php (0 words)

	Curtiss Kittyhawk
		The Kittyhawk was the name give by the RAF to the Curtiss Hawk 87 fighter (known in the USAAF as the P-40D and above).
		The Kittyhawk IV was normally used as a ground attack aircraft, as despite the improvement in performance it could not compete with the most modern German aircraft.
		The Kittyhawk was the RAF’s main fighter in the desert during the first half of 1942.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_P-40_kittyhawk.html (823 words)

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		This machine is related to Pearl Harbor and to the Dutch Indies, but actually it was already obsolete, when for the United States the war began.
		The depicted aircraft belonged to the 24th Pursuit Group, 3rd Pursuit Squadron, December 7, 1941 Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines.
		De Kittyhawk werd ook ingezet boven de Javazee, in Australië en Afrika, maar al gauw vervangen door andere vliegtuigen.
	www.warprops.com /pag06.htm (192 words)

	Curtiss Kittyhawk I — Canada Aviation Museum
		P-40s were flown on almost all battle fronts and were supplied to many countries, including Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Russia.
		The RCAF operated seven squadrons of Kittyhawks in Canada and Alaska.
		Introduced in 1941, the RCAF retired them all by 1946.
	www.aviation.technomuses.ca /collections/artifacts/aircraft/CurtissKittyhawkI.shtml (246 words)

	Curtiss P-40
		Of all the CBI groups the Curtiss fighter, the unit that gained the most notoriety of the entire war, and remains to this day synonymous with the P-40, is the American Volunteer Group (AVG) or the Flying Tigers.
		The P-40E Kittyhawk was the first model with this gun package and it entered service in time to serve in the AVG.
		The RCAF declared the NASM Kittyhawk IA surplus on July 27, 1946, and the aircraft eventually returned to the United States.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/curtissp40.htm (1308 words)

	Curtiss P-40 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prototype XP-40 was actually a Curtiss P-36 Hawk with its Pratt and Whitney R-1830 (civilian name, Twin Wasp) radial engine replaced by a liquid-cooled, supercharged Allison V-1710 V-12 engine.
		The Kittyhawks of No. 75 and 76 squadron successfully fended off Japanese aircraft and performed effective close air support for the Australian and U.S. troops, largely negating the initial Japanese advantage in light tanks and sea power.
		The RAAF units which made the most use of Kittyhawks were: No. 75 Squadron RAAF, No. 76 Squadron RAAF, 77, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 and No.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curtiss_P-40 (0 words)

	Australian National Aviation Museum - Curtiss P40E Kittyhawk
		In all some 838 examples of the Kittyhawk served with the RAAF in the South West Pacific area, making it one of the most numerous single types contributing to the defence of Australia in World War 2.
		Criticised for lack of high altitude performance, the Kittyhawk was not a direct match for the Zero, but tactics were evolved that exploited the strength of the aircraft and it’s ability to absorb tremendous combat damage, something the lightly built Japanese Zero could not.
		In all, Kittyhawks equipped 3,75,76,77,78,80,82,84,86, 120 (NEI) and 450 Squadrons of the RAAF as well as second line units.
	www.aarg.com.au /Kittyhawk.htm (253 words)

	Hangar 11 Collection of Legendary World War II Combat Aircraft. Spitfire, Mustang, Kittyhawk, Hurricane.
		The unique Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk, the only example outside the USA or New Zealand.
		As a brief history, this Curtiss P40M was manufactured in October 1943 and assigned to a RCAF squadron as serial no 840.
		The P40 Kittyhawk and the P51 Mustang "Jumpin Jacques" both have a passenger seat fitted.
	www.hangar11.co.uk (480 words)

	KITTYHAWK, Curtiss P-40
		The Kittyhawk was used by the RCAF home defence squadrons on both the east and west coasts.
		It was discovered buried on a farm in Alberta 1982 and after extensive restoration work in Australia was returned to the air in 1989.
		There is excellent archival footage of the Kittyhawk (jpg image) in North Africa, the Dutch East Indies, and with the Flying Tigers in Burma.
	www.spitcrazy.com /kitty.html (191 words)

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		The Kittyhawk I was Curtiss Model 87A-2 and the Kittyhawk Ia was Curtiss Model 87A-4.
		In all, the RCAF received 72 Kittyhawk I, 12 Kittyhawk Ia, 15 Kittyhawk III and 35 Kittyhawk IV aircraft, for a total of 134 aircraft, plus the loan of 9 Warhawks in the Aleutians, all in lieu of the 144 P-39 Airacobras originally allotted to Canada and rejected.
		Curtiss tried to develop a succesful replacement, and even with as many as four revised versions of the XP-60, was never able to come up with an aircraft that met the rapidly developing technology of the times.
	www.ipmstoronto.com /articles/aircraft/P40/Index.htm (0 words)

	Curtiss P-40 1/72 Scale
		This is a model of a plane that fought against the Germans and Italians in North Africa in 1942.
		Kittyhawk was the British nickname for improved versions of the Tomahawk.
		It is believed that Squadron 112 got the idea of painting shark mouths on the fronts of their planes from the German Messerschmitt Bf 110's encountered by the RAF in Greece in April 1941.
	www.jdburgessonline.com /planes/p40.html (0 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - Frans Bonné
		In the meantime, however, the designers form Curtiss already had a better engine/turbocharger combination, and soon the USAAC ordered the XP-40 to test the new combination.
		Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IA Lend-Lease aircraft, based on the P-40E-1.
		The Curtiss P-40 always maintained a little distance to it's enemies, but was nevertheless used effectively.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/curtp40.html (2047 words)

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