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	Warbird Alley: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
		The P-40 fighter/bomber was the last of the famous "Hawk" line produced by Curtiss Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s, and it shared certain design elements with its predecessors, the Hawk and Sparrowhawk.
		Curtiss addressed the airplane's mounting performance problems with the introduction of the P-40D (Kittyhawk Mk I), which was powered by a more powerful version of the Allison V-1710 engine, and had two additional wing-mounted guns.
		The engine change resulted in a slightly different external appearance, which was the reason the RAF renamed it from the Tomahawk to the Kittyhawk.
	www.warbirdalley.com /p40.htm (423 words)

	Curtiss P-40 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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-40B/C "Tomahawk" was deemed unsuitible for combat in the European theater, and was eventually relegated to North Africa.
		Many Tomahawks and Kittyhawks were caught slow and low by marauding Bf 109's, flown by the veteran pilots of elite Luftwaffe units such as the famous Jagdgeschwader 27, and the Allied squadrons suffered heavy casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curtiss_P-40 (5566 words)

	Tomahawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tomahawk (comics), a DC Comics character, published in his own series during the 1950s and 1960s
		Tomahawk, New Zealand was the old name for Ocean Grove derived from the Māori (Tomo-haka)
		In basketball, a tomahawk is a one-handed slam dunk, where the ball is brought over the head before being stuffed into the basket, in a chopping motion
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tomahawk (206 words)

	Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk
		Tomahawk II was the designation given to a new and improved export P-40, one which was better equipped for combat.
		Tomahawk IIA AH938 was transferred to Canada as an instructional airframe and AH936, 952, 965/971, 974/895, 987, 989, and 990 were delivered to the Soviet Union.
		An unspecified number of Tomahawk IIBs were sent to bolster Turkish neutrality in November 1941 (Turkey was supplied with aircraft from both the Allies and the Axis during World War 2) and a further 6 were transferred from the RAF to the Royal Egyptian Air Force.
	www.nzwarbirds.org.nz /p40a.html (7233 words)

	The Last Curtiss P-40C
		The Brits agreed and 100 of the contracted Tomahawks were transferred to a Chinese contract.
		Curtiss saw an opportunity to utilize stock of enternally sealed fuel tanks that had been used on the Tomahawk IIA.
		Many historians and authors have confused the various Curtiss designations, or figured that these were Tomahawk IIB aircraft based upon the serial numbers.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/9485/P-40C.html (1727 words)

	Australians at War
		The numerous variants of the Curtiss P-40 constituted one of the most ubiquitous Allied aircraft types of the Second World War.
		The Tomahawk had its limitations as a fighter, due to a slow rate of climb and poor performance at high altitude, but being both stable, and agile, at low altitudes, and extremely sturdy, it was a superb ground attack aircraft.
		The only RAAF squadron to operate Tomahawks was 3 Squadron in the Middle East between May and December 1941, although numerous Australian pilots also flew them with RAF Squadrons.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/subject_21335.asp (210 words)

	Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - USA
		The Curtiss P-40 was undoubtedly one of the most controversial fighters to serve in quantity during the Second World War.
		The Curtiss P-40 served during most of the Second World War with one air force or another, and under several different names including Tomahawk and Kittyhawk in Britain and Warhawk in the United States.
		The belief in the "ascendancy of bombardment over pursuit" was rife in 1937 when the Curtiss P-40 was first envisaged, and it is a sobering thought that, with the Bell P-39 Airacobra this product of such a school of thought constituted more than half the strength of all USAAF fighters until July 1943.
	www.aviation-history.com /curtiss/p40.html (1541 words)

	Joe Baugher's Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk files
		Realizing that the radial-engined P-36A was at the limit of its development, Curtiss designer Donovan Berlin got USAAC permission in July 1937 to install a 1150 hp Allison V-1710-19 liquid-cooled engine with integral supercharging in the 10th P-36A (Serial No 38-10).
		The export equivalent of the P-40B was the Tomahawk IIA (Model H81-A2).
		The export equivalent of the P-40C was the Tomahawk IIB (Model H81-A2).
	www.warbirdforum.com /p040.htm (2114 words)

	Flying Tigers P-40 Tomahawk manual
		However, internal evidence (the engine designation and references to the RAF blocks from which the China-bound Tomahawks were taken) tie it to the Tomahawk IIBs sent to Burma for the AVG.
		The Tomahawk I is a single-seater, low wing, monoplane with retractable landing gear and enclosed cockpit, powered with an Allison V-1710-C15 engine, which drives a Curtiss multi-position, constant speed, electrically operated, tractor propeller.
		The propeller is operated electrically from the airplane electrical supply thru brushes mounted in a housing, attached on the engine section, to slip rings mounted on the rear boss of the propeller hub, and thence to the pitch changing motor.
	www.warbirdforum.com /manual.htm (1462 words)

	Curtiss Tomahawk
		Tomahawk was the name given by the British to the Curtiss Hawk 81 (P-40 in American service).
		Their Tomahawks were the best allied fighter in Burma – the RAF was using the Brewster Buffalo.
		The Tomahawk was facing the Bf 109E, which was no longer the best version of that aircraft, having been replaced by the Bf 109F in Europe.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_P-40_tomahawk.html (601 words)

	P-51 Mustang
		One of Self's many tasks was to organise the manufacture of American fighter aircraft for the RAF.
		At the time, the choice was very limited: none of the US aircraft already flying reached European standards, and only the Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk came close, and with the Curtiss plant running to capacity already, even that aircraft was in short supply.
		Another was the use of a new radiator design from Curtiss, that used the heated air exiting the radiator as a form of jet thrust.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/p-/P-51.html (2118 words)

	Curtiss L-Z
		Curtiss corporate documents show that the Russians ordered and received 51 K boats; the delivery info also lists serial numbers.
		XF-87A - Contract for 88 was cancelled in favor of F-89 and F-94, marking the end of historic Curtiss military aircraft, except for a brief three-plane foray in the VTOL field in 1959.
		Curtiss also assembled 56 (>57) others from British-built airframes, which retained their British s/ns, but these were often referred to as "Curtiss SE-5s;" 2 to USN [A5588/5589].
	www.aerofiles.com /_curtx.html (6863 words)

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		The USAAC had agreed to defer deliveries of their P-40s so that the Tomahawk Is could be supplied to Britain as soon as possible.
		The Tomahawk IIB (Model H81-A2) was generally equivalent to the US It had four 0.303-inch Browning machine guns in the wings in addition to the two nose-mounted 0.50-in guns.
		After the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, one hundred and ninety-five Tomahawk IIBs were shipped to the USSR, some from the USA, others selected from the reserve forced based in the United Kingdom in anticipation of the German invasion which never came.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/p_series_fighters/p40.2 (1286 words)

	Curtiss Tomahawk
		Tomahawk II was the designation given to a new and improved export Tomahawk, one which was better equipped for combat.
		These Russian Tomahawks went into action on the Moscow and Leningrad fronts in October 1941, and were the first US-built planes to be used by the Russians in the new battle area.
		The planes were indeed diverted from Tomahawk IIB contracts, which was equivalent to the P-40C, but when the the planes were actually built they were equipped with the externally-sealed fuel tanks that had been used on the Tomahawk IIA.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher1/p40_6.html (2205 words)

	NZFPM \|Curtiss P40K Kittyhawk
		Curtiss P40K Kittyhawk First flown in 1938, the P-40 (also known as the Tomahawk and Warhawk) operated in almost every theatre of war in World War II.
		First flown in 1938, the P-40 (also known as the Tomahawk and Warhawk) operated in almost every theatre of war in World War II.
		The ’K’ series were produced by the Curtiss plant at Buffalo to a total of 1300 units during the latter part of 1942.
	www.nzfpm.co.nz /article.asp?id=p40k (361 words)

	Curtiss P-40
		The shark-mouthed Tomahawks that General Claire Chennault led against the Japanese remain among the most popular fighter aircraft of the war.
		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 unit's name was derived from the ferocious fangs and teeth painted on the nose of AVG P-40s at either side of the distinctive, large radiator air intake.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/curtissp40.htm (1308 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - Frans Bonné
		The Curtiss model 81 was to be a quick win situation, by mating the Vee engine of Allison to the frame of the model 75, aka the P-36.
		Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk II Rolls Royce Merlin powered version, in the form of a Packard V-1650.
		Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IV Lend-Lease verion of the P-40N for the RAF.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/curtp40.html (2047 words)

	Curtiss P-40 1/72 Scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese Tomahawks were built by the USA for Britain, but then diverted to China.
		Tomahawk was the nickname the British gave to the Lend-Lease export versions of the P-40B and C. The British began using Tomahawks against the Germans and Italians in North Africa in the summer of 1941.
		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 (927 words)

	EAW - Tally Ho
		This Curtiss P-36C Hawk aircraft was flown by USAAF pilots in early 1942.
		This Curtiss P-40E paint scheme was taken from enlargement of a fl and white photograph of Guadalcanal Airstrip in 1942.
		This Curtiss P-40B 'Tomahawk' aircraft flew with the 47th Pursuit Squadron, based at Haleiwa, on the 7th of December 1941.
	www.cds1.net /~linkman993/WOBT/WOBTusa.html (1280 words)

	Fighter Ace IIf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's importance lies in the fact that it was purchased extensively and the Curtiss production lines were ready to run at full capacity from the very start of the war.
		Chennault's brilliance was in using an inferior weapon to its maximum effect by carefully tailoring his tactics to use the P-40's strengths, robust construction and high diving speed compared to his Japanese opponents, to hit and run against the superior dogfighting ability of his enemies.
		Against the German and Italian opponents in the Mediterranean theatre the Tomahawk had a good turn rate and decent firepower but was hamstrung by the lack of a supercharger to carry the fight to higher altitudes.
	www.microsoft.com /games/zone/fighteraceII/visuals_plane_p40.htm (272 words)

	The Curtiss P-40 Fighter - Kittyhawk, Warhawk and Tomahawk -a photograph not a model aircraft kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk served in many different combat areas like the Aleutian Islands, Italy, the Middle East, the Far East, the Southwest Pacific and some were sent to Russia.
		Much of the enemy opposition to the RAF Tomahawk IIs in the Middle East was provided by obsolescent fighter biplanes like the Fiat CR-42 and underpowered, lightly armed fighter monoplanes such as the Fiat G-50 of the Italian Airforce.
		At low altitudes, the Tomahawk II was superior to the ME 109, but this advantage rapidly disappeared when combat took place at altitudes above 15,000 feet.
	www.moorewallpaper.com /ww2-27.htm (1340 words)

	Academy Plastics 1/72 Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk
		This is a 1/72 Plastic Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk Model Kit from Academy Plastics.
		One of the most familiar aircraft of the Second World War was the famous Curtiss P-40.
		Originally flown in 1938, the first P-40 was actually a modified P-36 using an inline Allison V12 engine instead of the P-36's bulky radial type.
	www.hobbyoutlets.com /acy/1655.htm (192 words)

	Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk Mk.IIb by Anatoli Tarasov (Academy 1/48)
		Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk Mk.IIb by Anatoli Tarasov (Academy 1/48)
		Here is Academy’s 1/48 scale Curtiss P-40C finished as a Tomahawk II B (with 7.69 mm guns) in the USSR.
		Almost all of these fighters were shot down or unserviceble by the end of the winter 1941/1942.
	www.hsgalleries.com /gallery04/p40bat_1.htm (72 words)

	P-40B / Tomahawk Mk.II Review by Brett Green (Trumpeter 1/48)
		The Curtiss P-40 might not have been the most advanced, glamorous nor fastest fighter aircraft in 1941, but it admirably bore the brunt of air battles with the Luftwaffe in North Africa, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in the Far East, during a critical phase of the Second World War.
		It might also be advisable to mask panel lines with thin strips of tape before filling the rivets to avoid accidentally obliterating all surface detail.
		Trumpeter's 1/48 scale P-40B / Tomahawk Mk.IIA is a competent kit of an important WWII fighter.
	kits.kitreview.com /p40btrump48reviewbg_1.htm (1085 words)

	Curtiss P-40 Warhawk \| Aircraft Blueprints \| Aviation History \| Airplane Plans
		In the RAF, it was known as the Tomahawk and...
		In the RAF, it was known as the Tomahawk and carried two.303 in.
		A reproduction of the famous Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.
	www.aviationshoppe.com /catalog/curtiss-p40-warhawk-p-59.html (221 words)

	Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
		Keeping of the early P40 models, with some originally designated for Lend-Lease delivery to the British, as "Tomahawks," and other hurriedly shipped over to China for the AVG, is complicated.
		Over Egypt, "Tomahawk IIB" was no match for the Bf-109E and was soon relegated to ground attack.
		Covered are the Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning, P-39 Airacobra, Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk/Kittyhawk/Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, North American P-51 Mustang, Northrop P-61 Black Widow, and the Navy F2A - Buffalo, F4F - Wildcat, F4U - Corsair, and F6F - Hellcat fighters.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/p40_warhawk.html (1326 words)

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		On 15/7/42 at 0915 George Dougall was in Curtiss Kittyhawk IA ET911, one of four 3 Squadron aircraft which took off and bombed a target of 150 vehicles at P.P.874297 west of El Alamein.
		His aircraft Curtiss Kittyhawk IV FX704 was hit by a rocket projectile and immediately caught fire and dived into the ground.
		Warrant Officer Halpin in Curtiss Kittyhawk IV FX760 was hit by the flak whilst dive-bombing the 88mm and 212mm gun positions; his aircraft spun in 200 yards south of the target.
	www.3squadron.org.au /subpages/roll.htm (8543 words)

	RCAF.com : The Aircraft : Curtiss TOMAHAWK
		The Curtiss P-40 was a development of the company's radial engine P-36 and the experimental YP-37 fighters.
		By 1943, however, the Tomahawk was badly out-classed and all of these squadrons had converted to either Spitfires or Mustangs.
		A small number of Tomahawk aircraft were brought on strength as part of the home war establishment.
	www.rcaf.com /aircraft/fighters/tomahawk (230 words)

	Academy 1/48 Curtiss P-40B/C Tomahawk "Flying Tigers"
		Aircraft: The P-40 Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk family of fighters evolved from the Curtiss P-36 Hawk series with a better engine and performance all round.
		The first group of variants that saw any war service was the P-40B/C Tomahawk and these versions were exported to China in the early days of the Japanese invasion.
		Against a numerically superior air force the Chinese P-40's performed well, particularly the "Flying Tigers" AVG [All Volunteer Group] who were flown by American mercenaries to defend China from the Japs.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Inbox/n-p/p-40b-c_48-i.htm (532 words)

	EAST ASIAN STUDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk was the name of the plane after it was modified.
		Compared to the Mohawk, the Tomahawk had a new, more powerful engine, more forceful weaponry, and iron plates that provided protection for the pilot.
		The Curtiss Tomahawk was manufactured to engage in battle with the German built Messerschmitt 109 and the Mitsubishi AGM Zero from Japan.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/flyingtigers/info/planes.html (486 words)

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