Kittyhawk

[Glenn[_2_]]

[Tom Callahan]

Why the Subject line Kittyhawk? Isn't this a Tomahawk P-47? Tom in
Pensacola


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I think it was Kittyhawk and Tomahawk for the British Commonwealth.
Warhawk was the US version. All were known as P-40. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40 and here:
http://www.p40warhawk.com/ . Also:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/curtissp40.htm

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[Tom Callahan]

Thanks. Don't know why I typed P-47 and not P-40. Oh, wait.....I know....I
can't type, Tom


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> I think it was Kittyhawk and Tomahawk for the British Commonwealth.
> Warhawk was the US version. All were known as P-40. See here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40 and here:
> http://www.p40warhawk.com/ . Also:
> http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/curtissp40.htm
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[Anyolmouse]

I have been a "Hunt and Pecker" typist all my life. If I didn't proof
read everything several times I would have more errors in my posts.
Spell checker helps too.

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> I think it was Kittyhawk and Tomahawk for the British Commonwealth.
> Warhawk was the US version. All were known as P-40. See here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40 and here:
> http://www.p40warhawk.com/ . Also:
> http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/curtissp40.htm
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My grandfather's younger brother was an aircraft mechanic on the Kittyhawk
during the war in the Pacific. He always spoke very fondly of these
aircraft. Shortly before he died, he was very sick and had trouble
remembering people and recent events. But when you asked him about the
Kittyhawk, he would become very switch on and could go into great detail
about the Kittyhawks maintenance procedures and his squadron colleagues
during the war.

I like this comment in wikipedia by former Prime Minister John Gorton on the
Kittyhawk;

John Gorton: RAAF, later Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-71. (Gorton
survived two serious crashes. One required him to undergo extensive plastic
surgery, with his face being changed significantly as a result. When asked
in later life what his most memorable flight had been, Gorton replied: "The
one in which I got my face mixed up with the instrument panel of a
Kittyhawk.")