When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a Curtiss P-40B Warhawk — like many others that day — never left the ground. The “date which will live in infamy,” caught pilots, shipmates, ...

Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly ...

We were puzzled by the left side of the Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk — it sweats oil. All of the seams and rivets show the telltale glossy sheen of some sort of greasy compound on the dull paint. No matter ...

One cannot but love how the fighter airplanes of the Second World War were tattooed. I mean, how else would we have seen shark-inspired creatures taking to the skies? Officially, the habit of painting ...

A new fleet of Air Force training aircraft honors the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American US Army Air Corps squadron that escorted bombers during World War II. The celebrated squadron painted ...