Despite criticism of inferiority to the Supermarine Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf 109, and even the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the Curtiss P-40 played ... the Flying Tigers – although why a tiger would ...

This weekend at Atlanta’s DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Losonsky climbed into a P-40 for the first time since the war, as part of a historic Flying Tiger reunion sponsored by the Commemorative Air ...

Udvar-Hazy Center, a Curtiss P-40E wears a shark face but was not a Flying Tiger. The aircraft is painted ... And then came the Curtiss P-40. Straight out of the factory, the fighter looked ...

the P-40 was the frontline U.S. fighter when the war began. It was made famous by Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers, who, among other squadrons, painted shark’s teeth on its nose. When Japan ...