Curtiss P-40 Flying Tigers

P-40s from around the US show off their colors! The pink Shark's Mouth P-40 belongs to Mrs. Suzanne DeLano Parish, a former WASP and president and co-founder of the Kalamazoo Aviation Museum. Desert Pink was an official color but this one is REALLY pink. Note the eyelashes on the Shark face and the Fifinella insignia which is the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) mascot, designed by Walt Disney.

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[MGB1977Red]

The P-40 took to the air in 1938. Known as the Warhawk in the US, Tomahawk to the British and Kittyhawk for the later D model. The early P-40s had an Allison V12 of about 1,040 hp but the aircraft excelled in diving and could endure harsh environments like desert and jungle. 28 nations used the P-40 during WW2 which is remarkable for such an early design.

[xgi36]

Wonderful aircraft.a great workhorse, better in the role of ground attack and troop support than the P51

[FlyinFishermanSweden]

Please turn that annoying music off...

The engine sound is the music we want to hear !

[Mattebubben]

@tostentwo the P40 would have an Advantage in diving but everything else the zeke would do better turning climbing and full Thrott forward so the p40 would do diving attacked and use its diving speed to get away if they got into Trouble

[sdv64]

Back ground music is pure bullshit and spoil the video !!!!

[tostentwo]

How did this stack up against the zero? I've spent time in China and the tiger plane is legendary over there. Zeros would be strafing villages for sport and in came these spirit planes and the Japs would high tail it out of there. The American military is still admired in the Chinese population from those days.

[wreckdiver001]

Nice video and very good camera work.

[igenther99]

@AlanMartinNala YES I mean we dont even care about what they looked like in the 40's why dont we use the original skin with a real decor on the front!!

[AlanMartinNala]

@igenther99 The shark-mouth motif fits the P-40 pretty well, yes; but I find it soooo boring that they have decorated almost all surviving P-40s with THE SAME shark mouth and the same fierce-looking eyes, while in fact there were almost countless shark mouth designs for the P-40. Practically, every P-40 during the war bore a different one, and to be honest, I´d love to see one re-painted as Clive "killer" Caldwell´s "GA-Y" Kittyhawk, with the real shark mouth it had; not this one once more.

[stitch626aloha]

In reality, only FIFTEEN air forces used the P-40 airframe series. The ENTIRE LINE of CURTISS-built fighters was used by 28 nations.

Get the facts straight.

[stitch626aloha]

and the pink Curtiss P-40 also bears conflicting insignia: the 1943 rondel, the Flying Tiger of the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force (Which was disbanded on July 4, 1942), the flag badge of the BRITISH Royal Air Force, AND PINK paint, which was NEVER used in any capacity!!! GET YER INSIGNIA RIGHT, PEOPLE!!!

The "color" known as "Desert Pink" was IN FACT a badly faded SAND which was painted over "TRANSPORT GRAY".