Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
Why is this P-40 called a "Kittyhawk?"

The small-jawed B and C models were called Tomahawk by the RAF. Both
Curtiss and the British regarded the big-jawed P-40D as new enough to
warrant a new designation, so it became Kittyhawk I in RAF service.

The AVG Flying Tigers likewise used this term for the P-40Es that were
ferried to them in the spring of 1942, though they were straight USAAF
variants.

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All US P-40s by late war were designated by the USAAC as Warhawk.
Tomahawk and Kittyhawk were P-40s in foreign service. The P-40Q was
unofficially known as the Winterhawk at its testing facility.

Rob