Curtiss "Tomahawk" MK.IIB fighter (The British Commonwealth)
In 1937, Curtiss refitted a previously developed P36 fighter jet with an Allison V-1710-19 liquid-cooled engine. The military project code for this aircraft was XP-40. The aircraft successfully flew for the first time in October of the following year and reached a high speed of 587 kilometers per hour. In April 1939, the P-40A ordered by the US Army began to be put into production and the B and C types were successively improved in the following years. Among them, the P-40C type (also known as Hawk81 A-2) adds a self-sealing fuel tank on the basis of the B type, which effectively improves the overall protection of the fuel system. At the same time, an anti-ground weapon rack has been added. Weapons are two 12.7mm machine guns and four 7.62mm machine guns on the main wing. After the outbreak of World War II, the British government purchased a large number of military aircraft from the United States, including 930 P-40C types, which were called "Tomahawk" MK.IIB and were assigned to the aviation unit of the British Commonwealth Army. Due to the performance gap with the German BF-109 fighter, most of the "Tomahawk" of the Commonwealth Army was used as a fighter-bomber. The RAF 112th Fighter Squadron was the first Allied unit to paint a shark's mouth on the nose of its aircraft. His commander, Captain Cliff Caldwell, became the Allied Air Force's top ace in the North African theater with a total record of 28.5 aircraft (22 of which were driven by the Tomahawk). The seal of this set of products is his car.
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