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9 comments:
I likey.
I totally dig this! Love the pin up girl. Looks classic..... but not... but.... never mind, I like it!
Not only the pin-up, but the Rising Sun flags... P-38 paint scheme, anyone?
P-40 warhawk.
His "pin-up girl is an "Ace", but I can not tell what suit. Bets on him being Air Force???
Sweet friggin' paint there guy! Pretty tuff imo.
Actually it was the P-40 Tomahawk, not the Warhawk. There may have been another variant of the P-40 called the Warhawk, but the P-40's with the shark's teeth paint used by Claire Chenault's Flying Tigers in China were Tomahawks.
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. The British Commonwealth and Soviet air forces used the name Tomahawk for models equivalent to the P-40B and P-40C, and the name Kittyhawk for models equivalent to the P-40D and all later variants,but I will be happey to just meet you in the middle and call it a P-40 paint scheme
My mistake, your explanation is more accurate. The Flying Tigers are a favorite subject of mine, not so much the P-40 in general. The AVG's initial purchase of P-40's was diverted from an RAF order which may be why what I've read refers to their planes as Tomahawks. But you're right, the Warhawk was the plane's given name and the one used throughout the US military. That said, a P-40 paint scheme works for me. And back to the original point, it looks awesome on that bike.
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