P-40 Cockpit Tour 

The Curtiss P-40 is my quintessential plane. I have loved it since I was a child. Used to draw pictures of it. It is on my bucket list to fly in one. Great plane.

I've said it many times and I'll say it again: The P-40 series of fighters was an egregiously underrated aircraft by many who had no idea what they were talking about.

The sheer amount of switches on the instrument panel in the warhawk compared to it's previous model, the tomahawk, blows my mind.

Long live The P40,,, awesome aircraft,, I'm in love

Beautiful aircraft.

That is a very nice looking restoration! And thanks for the tour, gentlemen.

The Australian War Memorial would probably have detailed records of what action the aircraft was involved in during it's time as RAAF A29-414. I am also in great envy of this pilot who gets to fly it. His comments about it's manoeuvrability and roll rate are spot on with what I have read about the P-40. I personally knew an Australian pilot who trained in Canada and flew P-40s during the war in New Guinea. His memoirs were a great read.

Thanks. It's good seeing someone so excited about their machine.

I think I've seen this aircraft in flight, in Hamilton, ON, at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, home of the Lancaster someone mentioned they saw here. I had a chance to talk briefly with some of the Vintage Wings of Canada crew. They're great guys, they know those airplanes and they love flying them. They go out of their way to engage with the public, too, and don't seem to tire of answering questions from anyone. It properly honors the men who flew these planes in wartime; thanks.

Great HiDef quality video, great editing, and what a super plane.

This plane has been re-done nicely. It looks New!

Read the book ‘44 Days’ by Michael Veitch. It is a great read about the fighting this aircraft would have done. An amazing story for any WWII history enthusiast, particularly if you’re interested in the P40

Hey! That's My plane leave it alone. I love P-40s. He is sooooo lucky.

Awesome Airplane, I just wish I could be there...

I´ve always been a staunch P-40-lover ever since I saw this flying marvel for the first time, and I know that during the war, the US army nicknamed it "the old exterminator". What I never knew so well, however, was the general impression of all those fighting pilots who at some moment had the chance of piloting a P-40 during the war. Did they like it dispite its "humble" performances since the mid-war or did they dislike it as many fighting pilots disliked the P-39 Airacobra?

Awesome vid, thanks for posting. With the RAAF it was A29-414 Come In Suckers. Crashed while landing at a boggy airfield, one of the wheels colleapsed and it nosed over and caught fire. The fire was put out and it was bulldozed clear of the strip to make way for other SQN ACFT coming in, all low on fuel. It remained in situ until it was recovered in 2001. Therefore this restoration is a credit to those who carried it out.

It is a P-40N dressed up to look like a P-40E used by the Desert Air Force in 1942. The aircraft is dedicated to the memory of Dennis Copping, the (still missing) pilot of the aircraft that was found in the Egyptian desert by a Polish oil exploration team in 2012.

One last thing, before I saw this I didn't know that the supercharger/turbocharger was critical for high-altitude performance! I've heard of planes that performed well at high or low altitude but I think I always figured it was the wing shape and 'something to do with the engine'. I'd never heard it put in clear terms before, but now it makes perfect sense that you'd need a good supercharger to increase the intake air pressure for high altitudes.

Excellent video!

Beautiful air craft the p40 always liked it .