North American began production of the P-51A Mustang at its Inglewood, California, production plant. As the war effort ramped ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or in this base, the bomb-holder. These warplanes may take the fight to the enemy, but ...

Aviation junkies will be treated to 80 years of flight & military history when the presentation series Warbirds in Review ...

Custodian and enthusiastic pilot Peter Teichman paints the picture of acquiring, operating and restoring Hangar 11’s Curtiss P-40, now with a new owner in the USA Peter Teichman opens our story: ...

This installment of Randy's Warbird Profiles takes a look at the Erickson Aircraft Collection’s Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk ...

A plane that just shouldn't be there. A ghost plane.... A ghost Curtiss P-40 Warhawk! Pilots Robert Lee Scott and Johnny Hampshire from the “Flying Tigers” scramble to intercept the mysterious ...

the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Although the P-40 was sent into combat after the death of Glenn H. Curtiss, the flying machines were constructed by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The corporation was a ...

Curtiss-Wright Corporation's Q2 2024 earnings ... Margin expansion was evident in the Aerospace & Industrial (+40 bps) and Defense Electronics (+390 bps) segments while the Naval & Power segment ...

Truman’s next punch was directed more at AAF judgment than at Curtiss: “The [Curtiss] P-40 fighter planes have performed valuable work on the various fighting fronts, but were relatively ...

snagged a major subcontract, at first making main fuselage fuel tanks for the Curtiss P-40. The army sponsored rapid plant expansion -- orders rolled in for tanks, fins, control surfaces, and more, ...

In the late 1930s, the British Purchasing Commission approached the NAA to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the RAF. The NAA decided to avoid entertaining an older design from a different ...

Its Infamous Smile Today, it is almost impossible to see a surviving Curtiss P-40 without the infamous “shark smile” painted on the front. And most who know anything about World War II would ...