Curtiss Kittyhawk I
Title
Curtiss Kittyhawk I
Description
An aircraft recognition card with a side photograph of a flying Kittyhawk I and on the reverse three silhouettes and technical details.
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One double sided printed card
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MDarbyCAH927893-180202-010019,
MDarbyCAH927893-180202-010020
MDarbyCAH927893-180202-010020
Transcription
[photograph]
Reproduced from “The Aeroplane”
VALENTINE’S “AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION” CARDS
VALENTINE & SONS, LTD.,
DUNDEE and LONDON.
Printed in Gt. Britain.
[page break]
“THE PROFICIENCY TEST” SERIES. No. – 21
THE CURTISS KITTYHAWK 1.
BRITISH FIGHTER.
The Kittyhawk is the British version of the P-40D supplied to the U.S. Army. Powered with the latest Allison V-1710 motor 1,150 h.p. In appearance it is identical with the Tomahawk except in re-designed cockpit and slightly altered nose. Details of armament have not been released.
Dimensions. – Span, 37 ft. 3 1/2 in.; length, 31 ft 8 3/4 in.; height, 10 ft 9 in.; wing area, 236 sq. ft.; aspect ratio, 6.0.
Performance. – No figures released but the max. speed appears to be about 360 m.p.h. at 15,000 ft.
[3 images]
THESE DRAWINGS, REPRODUCED FROM “AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION,” ARE THE COPYRIGHT OF “THE AEROPLANE.”
RECOGNITION POINTS. – Wings with swept forward trailing edge and almost untapered [sic] leading edge. Rounded tips characteristic Curtiss “knuckles” in the leading edge near the wing roots which house mountings of backwards retracting undercarriage. Wheels lie flat in wings. Long deep nose with forward radiator and long bulge underneath fuselage. Rounded tail plane with curved “cut-out” for single rudder.
Reproduced from “The Aeroplane”
VALENTINE’S “AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION” CARDS
VALENTINE & SONS, LTD.,
DUNDEE and LONDON.
Printed in Gt. Britain.
[page break]
“THE PROFICIENCY TEST” SERIES. No. – 21
THE CURTISS KITTYHAWK 1.
BRITISH FIGHTER.
The Kittyhawk is the British version of the P-40D supplied to the U.S. Army. Powered with the latest Allison V-1710 motor 1,150 h.p. In appearance it is identical with the Tomahawk except in re-designed cockpit and slightly altered nose. Details of armament have not been released.
Dimensions. – Span, 37 ft. 3 1/2 in.; length, 31 ft 8 3/4 in.; height, 10 ft 9 in.; wing area, 236 sq. ft.; aspect ratio, 6.0.
Performance. – No figures released but the max. speed appears to be about 360 m.p.h. at 15,000 ft.
[3 images]
THESE DRAWINGS, REPRODUCED FROM “AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION,” ARE THE COPYRIGHT OF “THE AEROPLANE.”
RECOGNITION POINTS. – Wings with swept forward trailing edge and almost untapered [sic] leading edge. Rounded tips characteristic Curtiss “knuckles” in the leading edge near the wing roots which house mountings of backwards retracting undercarriage. Wheels lie flat in wings. Long deep nose with forward radiator and long bulge underneath fuselage. Rounded tail plane with curved “cut-out” for single rudder.
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Valentine & Sons, “Curtiss Kittyhawk I,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/39697.
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