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Curtiss P-40: Long-nosed Tomahawks(Air Vanguard)

Curtiss P-40: Long-nosed Tomahawks(Air Vanguard)


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A definitive technical guide to the long-nosed Curtiss P-40 Warhawk variants. The initial version of the Curtiss P-40, designated by the manufacturer as the Hawk H-81, combined the established airframe of the earlier radial-powered H-75 (P-36) fighter with the Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled engine. The year was 1939, and the marriage was one of expediency. With the threat of war in Europe growing by the day, the US Army Air Corps brass wanted a modern fighter that would combine the sterling handling qualities of the P-36 with a boost in performance that would make it competitive with the new types emerging in Germany and England, and the generals wanted the new plane immediately. As this book details, the P-40 delivered admirably, and though it never reached the performance levels of the Bf 109 or Spitfire, the sturdy fighter nevertheless made a place in history for itself as the Army's frontline fighter when the US entered World War II. Long-nosed P-40s initially saw combat in North Africa, flying in Royal Air Force squadrons. They also fought in the skies over Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. But the long-nosed P-40 is best known as the shark-faced fighter flown by the American Volunteer Group – the legendary "Flying Tigers" – over Burma and China during 1941–42.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Design and development Technical specifications Operational history Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Carl Molesworth, a resident of Mount Vernon, Washington, USA, is a former newspaper and magazine editor now working as a publicist and freelance writer. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a BA in English, Carl served as an enlisted man in the United States Air Force, 1968–72. He has been researching and writing about fighter operations in World War II for more than 30 years. His eleven previous titles include three books in Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces series, three in the Elite Units series and two in the Duel series.

Review :
"...the story is quite well told and the book is full of some great period photographs as well as some very well done art work. A full 18 of the 64 pages are devoted to specifications of every variant from the Hawk 75 prototype to the Tomahawk IIB." --Scott Van Aken, www.modelingmadness.com (June 2013)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780969091
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Air Vanguard
  • Sub Title: Long-nosed Tomahawks
  • Width: 174 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1780969090
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2013
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 240 gr


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