In June 1942, Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping vanished during a routine ferry flight over the North African desert. His P-40 never arrived, and no distress signal was ever received. For decades, the ...

Known by many names, including Hawk, Kittyhawk, Tomahawk and Warhawk, by the end of the Second World War, some thirty-one variants of the P-40 were developed, and the aircraft saw service in every ...

In all, the P-40 proved itself a worthy and rugged fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was the third most widely produced American fighter of World War II, after the North American P-51 Mustang and the ...