Curtiss P40-E Kittyhawk fighter (aka Warhawk) flown by Ray Hanna
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Two Curtiss P-40s, one flown by legendary kiwi warbird pilot Ray Hanna (as one of his last public displays), are shown here during its display at the Classic Fighters airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand at Easter 2005.
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Ray was an incredible man. Some of us called him a friend.
THE SHARK TEETH NOSE ART JUST FITS THIS PLANE. IT WAS MEANT TO BE
That loop in formation was absolutely gorgeous
These things are freakin majestic.
Outstanding! Thank you
What a beautiful aircraft!
To me the most beautiful WWII fighter plane. I even built one in 1:72.
I love this plane and the P-47
The P-40 Warhawk, the F4 Wildcat, the F4 Corsair...and of course the Mustang...my favorites.
P-51D mustang
My uncle flew one in Burma. He was a captain at 19.
The P-40 always had a "I'm gonna eat you" expression to it..
Well, it looks like one pissed-off looking shark.
An*
Bark worse than its bite
How Cool! One Of My Favorite Planes & Thanks For Not Playing Crappy Music . . .
No problem!
Saburo Sakai said the “P40 was to be feared at low altitude...” I read a German Me109 Ace quoted as saying, “attempting to turn fight a P-40 was suicide.” I read an American P-40 Ace say that he’d often shaken off a multiple Me-109’s by performing an “eye popping turn”. The anecdotes of those who said the P-40 was an unmaneuverable slug are pure rubbish. The roll rate of the plane is fantastic. In its ideal altitude, it rolls and turns better than the P-51. See Jeff Ethel’s tube in which he takes out a P-40 and demonstrates how fast it rolls. He says (and he flew one a lot) it turns and rolls far better than a P-51. It also took damage far better than a P-51, which famously was doomed by perforating a coolant hose which were very vulnerable on the type and why they stopped using the P-51 for ground attack in Korea.
Sad they didn’t go forward with the P-40Q or at least shoehorned a two-stage supercharger in the P-40. It they had dropped the 1,500 hp Allison’s they used in the P-38 into the P-40, it would have been a very much superior air superiority fighter than the P-51, which had greatly exaggerated maneuverability. The P-47 actually had a better kill:loss ratio. Also the top P-47 Aces survived the war largely.
Provided a P-40 driver kept his nose down and speed up he could fight the Zero and Oscar on very even terms. The Zero could easily turn inside a P-40 at low speed, but the reverse was true at high speed. The Zero could outclimb the P-40 at low speed, but at high speed (particularly when coming out of a dive) the P-40 would easily outclimb the Zero. Of course in all scenarios the P-40 could outdive the Zero with ease, meaning any Japanese pilot attempting to dive away from a fight wouldn't be able to shake his pursuer (and Allied pilots could always break away from a disadvantageous position). Of course every maneuver bleeds off speed, so these advantages a P-40 possessed were fleeting, but as long as the pilot resisted the temptation to get into a low and slow turning fight with a Zero then he'd have a very good chance of winning an engagement.
Your understanding of the P-51 is pants.
These guys are sounding hot. Very nice P-40s. Man, what a blast. Outstanding show of a hot fighter..
She's a beaut.
Ray always flew these aircraft how they should be flown.
Balls to the Wall.
Absolutely!
RIP Ray.
One word, Outstanding!
Ray was the best!
I love the P40, such a beautiful plane
The kittyhawk was beautiful my fathers boss flew these he started 82 squadron raaf bert grace
Great soundtrack of the engines :)
Never get tired of hearing WWII aircraft.
i love the sound of ROARING TIGER .. cool , very cooooooool man
One of my favorite planes. First 1:72 model I ever built and sadly never painted. Couldn't afford the colors and had no idea how to thin colors and do a good paint job. To be honest I was too young and didn't like to read textbooks that could have teached me this. Of course the public library hadn't much books about painting aircraft esp. war planes. :D
Lots of people say they would take the Zero over the P-40.I say you can take the Zero it was a flying coffin only after a few hits.The P-40 was way more rugged and packed more firepower.
Yes & It's Historically Proven That Had The USAAF Paid Attention To Chennault's Advice About How To Engage The Zero (& Oscar), A-lot Fewer Allied Pilots Would've Been Lost In Combat Against Them.
See Chanelle’s tactics for the AVG or the Port Moresby defenders. In flying a P-40, if you kept your speed over 275 mph where the Zero’s aerilons started to freeze up, the Zero was screwed. If the P-40 went heads up against the Zero machine guns blazing, the Zero usually lost that fight blowing up.
It was typical of our way of thought; less climb, less maneuverability but more rugged and more firepower to protect the poor sap that has to go to war in it! :D
New Zealand rockz!
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P 40 was damned by words but flown to glory.
the beautiful sound of the p40.
the gun guy that is epic! how can you not love that big nose?
Brian Collins i know right.
What do you call two Warhawks in a low, fast flyby ?
Stereo.
Imagine how good it could have been with a two stage blower!!!
They use P-40s in the opening scene of the movie "Valkyrie".
Appropriately, I might add.
lord thunderin' jesus ! from 1:44 to 2:23, the exhaust note of these two Kitty's is nothing
short of epic. The sound of victory ! should be taught in schools. Great insight on the
R.N.Z.A.F great job lads, well done, thank you. ( I should mention that the loop performed
by the ( section ) of two Kitty's, in the above noted time was very nice indeed.)
Flying HOT RODS, I love them.
Damn straight. Throaty. Yum.
Ah, the Zero vs the P-40 debate. In their respective environments, each had their high points. The Zero was designed for long ranges and traditional dogfighting. It was, by virtue of it light weight and large ailerons, very maneuverable. But as the speed of air combat built, it became harder to maneuver and because it lacked self-sealing fuel tanks it was very susceptible to fire. The P-40 was heavier and had the 0.50 caliber machine guns giving it a high rate of fire with a heavy punch. Once the pilots were taught to not try to dogfight with the Zero, but use the P-40’s superior speed in a dive and better high speed maneuverability, it became a much closer fight. It all finally came down to pilot skill.
American Muscle of the Sky
Excellent demonstration of how these birds were actually flown. They were not very maneuverable, but they were fast, rugged, heavily gunned, and could climb pretty well. Lends them well to dive attacks, ground support, and shoot and scoot tactics, especially in the Asian Theater. Against the germans, you might not have so much luck in the late war, with the Luftwaffe aircraft being able to out dive the P40 and with greater top speed.
The P-40 Warhawk had quite a few strengths, with overall maneuverability being one of most well-known and appreciated. The Warhawk was considered to have the finest aileron performance of any WWII aircraft, with a roll rate at least twice that of the Japanese opposition, and significantly better than practically all other Axis aircraft. The P-40 was also faster in level flight at all altitudes than any Japanese fighter, and on par with all others until the final year of the war. The Warhawk could also outdive virtually any Allied or Axis aircraft, perhaps excepting only the P-47 Thunderbolt. It was also very heavily armed and armored, making it both one of the most lethal and survivable types of the war.
The P-40's climb rate was actually considered its worst attribute, as was its poor high-altitude performance, due to the lack of a two-stage supercharger. But the design was almost perfectly suited to the type of air-to-air and air-to-ground tactics that virtually all the most prolific WWII-era aces discovered and perfected. This meant that the WWI-style slow-speed dogfight was a thing of the past, though it took the Allies a few years-and a few downed P-40s-to finally figure this out. The Japanese were apparently alone in never realizing this, continuing to build slow, delicate, lightly armored, lightly armed aircraft whose only real advantage was in low-speed maneuverability and climb rate.
The point is, you have your P-40 strengths/weaknesses exactly reversed.
chuckbflo I just meant that a common tactic with the P40's was they would dive down building speed, attack, zoom back up to altitude, maneuver on the apex and come back around.
tartredarrow Yes, the “dive-zoom-climb” was a tactic that suited the P-40’s strengths well. In fact, this was the tactic discovered to work best by most Allied and Axis aces (except the Japanese) no matter what aircraft type they were flying. The old, slow-speed, turning dogfights of WWI, no matter how glamorous and romantic, were by the middle of WWII thus considered anachronistic and highly discouraged by virtually all air forces (again, except Japan). Almost no matter the equipment, entering a slow-speed dogfight was a comparatively risky proposition-a crapshoot-producing far worse results than dive-zoom-climb.
that was a great video
Might not of been the best fighter, but I love the look.
That is just fuckin awesome....love it
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my fav
Quite a use of vintage military aircraft, the P-40 Warhawk has seen actual Combat before and it was used against Japanese and German ground forces and air units during World War 2.
Awesome.
Sempre tive um fashinio por aviões,e voar!!Há carros que dão essa sensação...!!.😏
I from malaysian but? I like P40 air plane
Ways of the Warhawk
PLEASE STOP FLYING SO CLOSE!!!
needed 350 more horse power and bigger prop.... thats to bad cause that plane was amazing looking
almost as beautiful as the spits just lacking in HP and FP
The P-40 is still 1 of the best planes around. Not many fly. It is so funny that during Korea that a Corsair was the first prop driven plane to shot down a jet fighter in the 50s. But in reality it was a P-51 that shot down a jet fighter during WW2. A German fighter was landing after attacking B-17s and heading in. Yet the history books show Korea as the first engagement of prop vs jets. .
Lies
David Lee you need to read about the Tuskegee Airmen. They had success against the ME 262.
@@mikebtrfld1705 mate , your not some pioneer of race relations, allied forces all over the planet shot down enemy planes,
+Zenfald zo ziek joh die P40's
Why is the sound lagging
Awesome. Teeth This Is One I MUST. BY THE BIGGEST ON. THE MARKET
fucking coool
Is there a video of this without the talking?
+youtubuzr Yes, it's available on the Classic Fighters 2007 DVD which has both commentary and non-commentary audio track. See the shop at www.aviationfilm.com
cocor merah yang dipakai belanda waktu perang kemerdekaan
中華民國！
慧穎陳 That’s who the AVG fought for.
Jesus love you
Should of put a merlin in it.
They did : P-40F
And the P-40F was no better with the Merlin because the Merlin without it's famous two-stage blower (as installed in the Spit and 51s) is no better than the Allison the 40 originally came with. I don't know why the two stage blower was not installed in the few Merlin equipped 40s.
Beautiful, high class synchronized flying. Great job!
That said, from an aerodynamic point of view the aircraft is a downright scandal and an utter waste of money.
Put it side by side with contemporary Messerschmitt 190 F and compare their abilities in speed, climb and actual maneuverability and you'll see what I see: a second-rate gun rack for cannon fodder. Hartmann couldn't get performance out of that thing.
Oh look, a clueless comment. What the hell is a Messerschmitt 190 F anyway?
Vl
IT WAS A DOG !
It was not.
Yea sorry , it was a dog ...... the only way it could fight was hit and run .... everybody in everything shot it down
@@richardritter3092 Saburo Sakai Japans top scoring ace said after the war he felt a well flow P-40 among his most formidable opponents.
@@richardritter3092 Hit and run was the way to get it done. One always vied to
get into position for a " bounce ". If one got into a turning fight, they were
likely going to die in a few scant minutes.