Vans RV-6A at Catalina Island |
Here's a modern sport plane dressed up like a WW2 fighter. Next we have the real thing.
Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk |
Kittyhawk? I thought it was a Tomhawk. Depends on where you were standing:
P-40 Warhawk was the name the United States Army Air Corps gave the plane, and after June 1941, the USAAF adopted the name for all models, making it the official name in the U.S. for all P-40s. The British Commonwealth and Soviet air forces used the name Tomahawk for models equivalent to the original P-40, P-40B, and P-40C, and the name Kittyhawk for models equivalent to the P-40D and all later variants. - Wikipedia
Grumman also built a 180hp Sportsplane 4 seater called the Tiger. Undamped undecarriage . poor brakes. Otherwise good 140 knots. Fun to fly. Friend Sarah had one..
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