Ever since I saw my first P-40 as a young'n I've possessed a special fascination for the type. My Grandfather worked at Curtiss-Wright here in Buffalo, NY and I've wanted to pay tribute both to him and to the aircraft which he had a hand in manufacturing.

As a result of an early introduction to things with wings, I've become an historian/researcher and general military aviation enthusiast. This, coupled with my interest in producing historically accurate 'scale' models as well as somewhat latent artistic inclinations, has given me an insatiable appetite for pictures; be they actual photographs or digital images. My Dad was a photographer and although my own presence behind the lens is less workmanlike than his and my experience in the darkroom has been somewhat brief, my base interest in that art has remained. However, it is an appreciation of that art rather than my own practice of it that dominates, and I am quite active in collecting images.

It is because of this 'quest' for imagery that I've been able to build this website. Aside from paying tribute, another goal of this project is to present as many images of the Curtiss P-40 as possible... all in one place. As a researcher I do enjoy going from source to source but I get lazy sometimes and, undoubtedly, others do as well. So I'm going to try to make this site a one-stop-shop for P-40 images and, eventually, for other Curtiss aircraft as well.

But, in the end, the main purpose of this site is to simply serve as a tribute to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk as well as to all of the men and women who were associated with it...

Especially Gramps...