which in 1942 absorbed the mission—and some of the pilots and airplanes—of the Flying Tigers. And then came the Curtiss P-40. Straight out of the factory, the fighter looked like it had a ...

A plane that just shouldn't be there. A ghost plane.... A ghost Curtiss P-40 Warhawk! Pilots Robert Lee Scott and Johnny Hampshire from the “Flying Tigers” scramble to intercept the mysterious ...

While flying his own P-40, Smith took this image of ... and author of the 1986 memoir Tale of a Tiger. His photographs show the shark-faced Curtiss P-40s that the group became famous for, as ...