Decals 3D

P-40B

Brand EDUARD

SKU EDU-3DL32014 EAN 8591437578191

Features

Nation: United States of America

Period: WWII

Scale: 1/32

Type: Aircraft

Price 18,40 €

Description

1/32 P-40B SPACE (for G.W.H.)

The Curtiss P-40 was a U.S.-made single-engine, single-seat monoplane that in the first half of the 1940s was employed by the Allies as a fighter or fighter-bomber aircraft in many of the theaters in which World War II was fought. Produced by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, as a linear-engine version of the earlier Curtiss P-36 Hawk, it was never an outstanding aircraft (due mainly to the engine, which was underpowered at high altitudes); however, it was nevertheless built in large numbers, and its remarkable ruggedness (coupled with its wide availability from the first months after the U.S. entry into the war) made it one of the most important fighters for the U.S. Air Force between 1941 and the summer of 1943.

The versions supplied to the U.S. military (USAAC and, later, USAAF) were known as Hawk 81 (up to the P-40E) or Warhawk (P-40F onwards), while those delivered to Commonwealth countries under Lend-Lease ("lease and loan") agreements were known as Tomahawk (equivalent to P-40A, B and C versions) or Kittyhawk (equivalent to P-40D and later versions).