Allison V-1710
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The Allison V-1710 was an American V12 aircraft engine designed and produced by the Allison Engine Company. Liquid-cooled, it was the most common US-developed engine of its type in service during Worl
An early Allison V-1710 engine (V-1710-7)
Cutaway of Allison V-1710
P-38G engine, in this case V-1710-51/55 (F10) which this series used
Allison V-1710 on display at the Air Zoo
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
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The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter-bomber that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduce
Allison V-1710
…powered the prototype Curtiss XP-37s. All entrants in the new pursuit competition were designed around it, powering the Lockheed P-38, Bell P-39 and Curtiss P-40. When war material procurement agents from the United Kingdom asked North American Aviation to build the P-40 under license, NAA instead proposed their…
A restored P-40M Warhawk landing at Season Premier Airshow, in Shuttleworth, UK
Curtiss XP-40 "11" used for test purposes by the Materiel Division of the US Army Air Corps
A three-quarter view of a P-40B, X-804 (s/n 39-184) in flight. This aircraft served with an advanced training unit at Luke Field, Arizona.
Evidence of the P-40's durability: in 1944 F/O T. R. Jacklin (pictured) flew this No. 75 Squadron RAAF P-40N-5 more than 200 mi (322 km) after the loss of the port aileron and 25% of its wing area, due to a mid-air collision with another P-40N-5.