Does anyone know who built a p-40b tomahawk? A friend of mine has one he wants me to build and I can't find anything out a bout it.

Thanks

Curtiss aircraft built the P40 fighter. Hope this helps.

Dave S.

How about a bit more information? At least the wing span and type of construction minimum. There have been very few B/C model P-40 kits or ARFS so it should not be too difficult to identify.

Greetings from Finland

http://www.rcmodelcentre.co.uk/Black...prod_2706.html

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10963797/tm.htm

I hope that those helps

Old Erkki

Sorry I ment to say 55" wing span

Could be a Wing Manufacturing kit.

Thanks for the info. This looks like it might be what he is asking me to build for him. How do they fly once completed?

Thanks again

"Flies like a dream...", or so it says right on the box top! I've not built this or any of the Wing sport scale kits but they are designed to be easy to build and easy to fly more than to be scale. They have a pretty solid reputation as being good airplanes. Keep it light and keep it straight and I would bet your customer will be very happy.

Thanks for the info. After I finish the build I think mmy son inlaw might be the pilot.

Sorry, I didn't realise you were looking for information about a kit. I thought you wanted to know who made the full sized aircraft.

Cosmicwind is correct that Curtis built the full scale P-40 durring WWII. What he might not know is they were built is his area at what is now Buffalo International Airport in Cheektowaga N.Y. (Hamburg is also a suburb of Buffalo). They were built by Curtis-Wright Aircraft in the same plant that also built the twin engine C-46 Comando transport plane. My father was on the test flight crew for the C-46's. After the war the building became a Westinghouse plant, then I think part of Cornell. I haven't lived there in 35 yrs so I don't know if the plant still stands.

Thanks 52larry.
Yes, I did know that Curtis built planes in the Buffalo area. I didn't know that it was at the old Westinghouse plant at the airport. There used to be a restaurant near the airport called the 'Flying Tigers'. I never got to it, but I hear that it was decorated with a lot of pictures and P40/Curtiss items. A lot of aviation history in ny state.

Dave S.

Cosmicwind, Yes you are right again, the "flying tigers" restaurent was neat. Got to eat there one time with my dad when I made a return to home visit some years ago. My dad is gone now but I remember all the Curtiss photos making my dad tell stories about his war time with Curtiss-Wright. Thanks for bring back that memory! Yes, N.Y. state and Western New York has lots aviation history. Glenn Curtiss doing early seaplane testing in the Finger Lakes area, Bell helicopter at Nigara Falls Airport and the X-1 rocket plane on display there once (I saw it), and much more. Take care, Larry

The old Curtiss-Wright / Westinghouse plant on Genesee St. was demolished back when the airport was expanded and the terminals replaced. My grandfather worked on the X-1 project at Bell back in the 1940's - he's the one who got me into these infernal airplanes and rockets....

Chris

Chris, Thanks for the update. Sorta sorry to hear the old plant is gone, but time marches on. As a kid I lived within bicycle riding distance of the Buffalo airport, probably nothing left of what I remember. Do you know if the X-1 was built in Niagara Falls ?