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BIGGEST P-40B Warhawk AVG Wooden Model
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BIGGEST P-40B Warhawk AVG Wood Model Airplane
Wingspan: 20.35"
Model length: 18.15"
Height:12"
Code: BW06011
HUGE Mahogany wood model airplane. BIGGER and more detailed than the regular model airplane available in the market today, for a lot less!
One huge BIG WINGS series P-40B Tomahawk!This BIG wood model airplane is completely handcarved from mahogany wood and hand-painted to represent "Adam and Eve" - legendary Marine Ace Pappy Boyington's Tomahawk when he flew for the AVG in China! Measuring more than 18 inches long with a 20-inch wingspan, this BIG P-40B is in every respect larger than a regular-sized P-40B wood model airplane.
HUGE P-40B TOMAHAWK AVG WOOD MODEL AIRPLANE IS NOW IN STOCK AND READY TO SHIP
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Curtiss P-40 was a U.S. single-engine, single-seat, low-wing, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft which first flew in 1938, and was used in great numbers in World War II. When production ceased in November 1944, 13,738 P-40s had been produced; they were used by the air forces of 28 nations.
Warhawk was the name the United States Army Air Corps adopted for all models, making it the official name in the United States for all P-40s. British Commonwealth air forces gave the name Tomahawk to models equivalent to the P-40B and P-40C and the name Kittyhawk to models equivalent to the P-40E and all later versions.
The P-40's lack of a two-stage supercharger made it inferior to Luftwaffe fighters in high altitude combat, and the P-40 was barely used in the northwest European theater, where the Army Air Force would eventually be concentrated. However, between 1941 and 1944, the P-40 played a critical role with Allied air forces in five major theaters around the world: China; the Mediterranean Theater; the South East Asian Theater; the South West Pacific Area, and in Eastern Europe.
P-40s first saw action with British Commonwealth air forces in the Desert Air Force, in August 1941.The P-40's poor high-altitude performance was not a detriment in the North African Campaign, and its bomb load, armour and good range were beneficial. The Royal Air Force's No. 112 Squadron was the first to fly Tomahawks in North Africa. The squadron copied the famous shark mouth markings under the spinner from Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 110 Zerstörer units with the logo later adopted by the Flying Tigers in China for their P-40s.
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