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1943. A Curtiss P-40/Kittyhawk Mark III of No. 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force taxiing through the scrub at Medenine, Tunisia. The ground crewman on the wing is directing the pilot, whose view ahead is hindered by the aircraft's nose. The squadron was the first Allied unit to use the "shark mouth" marking on the P-40, in mid-1941.
A Ju 87B-1 (Geschwaderkennung of S2+AC) of Stab II/St. G 77, piloted by Major Alfons Orthofer and based in Breslau-Schöngarten during the invasion of Poland, was painted with a shark's mouth, and some Bf 110s were decorated with furious wolf's heads, stylistic wasps (as with SKG 210 and ZG 1), or as in the case of ZG 76, the shark mouths that ...
The P-40 usually had an advantage over the Bf 109 in turning, dive speed and structural strength, was roughly equal in firepower but was slightly inferior in speed and outclassed in rate of climb and operational ceiling. [9] [31] The P-40 was generally superior to early Italian fighter types, such as the Fiat G.50 Freccia and the Macchi C.200.
The wreckage of a P-40 with CAF serial number P-8115 is on display in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The aircraft is believed to be that flown by William "Mac" McGarry when he was hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying top cover over Chiang Mai on 24 March 1942. The aircraft crashed into the rain forest in northern Thailand. McGarry was captured and ...
P-40E-1CU 41-36084 RAAF P-40E Kittyhawk A29-133 Polly Australian War Memorial. The Curtiss P-40 was an American single-engine, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft. Flown by the air forces of 28 nations, when production of the P-40 ceased in November 1944, 13,738 had been built.
A shark-like image on their fish finder conjured images of a giant shark that swam the oceans millions of years ago. Shark-like underwater image conjures thoughts of 50-foot, 40-ton Megalodon for ...
Curtiss XP-40 in flight. XP-40 fitted with tracked landing gear. In 1937, the 10th P-36A was fitted with a 1,150 hp (860 kW) V-1710-19. Unlike the Model 75I, the resulting XP-40 (Model 75P) did not have a turbo-supercharger, thus the cockpit was not moved back, and the radiator was moved to the ventral position.
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