Curtiss Kittyhawk

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as ‘FX760’, the RAF Museum’s Curtiss Kittyhawk IV, a P-40N-15-CU built at Buffalo, New York in 1943 as 42-106101, flown in New Guinea by No. 80 Squadron RAAF as A29-556 until it was damaged landing at Tadji in May 1944 and abandoned there, recovered in 1974, restored for static display in the United States and displayed at Hendon since 1992, painted as a Kittyhawk IV of No. 112 Squadron in Italy in 1944: the last major version of the P-40, a single-seat fighter-bomber of 37 ft 4 in span with an Allison V-1710 V-12 under a long nose, a deep chin radiator intake, six .50 in machine guns in the wings, main wheels that retract rearwards and turn to lie flat in the wing, and the cut-down rear decking and enlarged rear glazing of the P-40N, shown standing tail-down as it is displayed there: Middle Stone and Dark Earth upper surfaces over Azure Blue undersides, the squadron’s shark mouth and eye round the nose and chin, a red spinner, a type C1 fuselage roundel between white ‘GA’ and ‘?’ codes, ‘FX760’ in black on the rear fuselage, a red, white and blue fin flash, type B roundels above the wings and type C beneath, the hood slid back and a black three-blade propeller with yellow tips. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.0 MB) · Plate 85 in The Hangar