Episode Details

Guest: David Duxbury

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 3rd of August 2017

Released: 9th of September 2017

Duration: 1 hours 37 minutes 8 seconds

In Part Two of this Curtiss P-40 special, following on directly from Episode 159, aviation historian David Duxbury once again joins Dave Homewood to conclude this Duxbury Files story. Together they continue to look at the history of the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and Warhawk fighter series in Royal New Zealand Air Force service, with such topics as more interesting incidents, books, collisions in the air and on the ground, weapons they dropped, fighter and bombing tactics, individual aircraft names, and much more.

David and Dave also answer more questions that came in from listeners. And they look at surviving examples of the P-40, plus much more. As usual with any conversation with David Duxbury, this is packed with gems of info and snippets that most people will never have heard before, so it is well worth a listen for any fan of the Kittyhawk or Warhawk.

•  Air To Air – by Chris Rudge

•  Too Young To Die – by Bryan Cox

•  Kittyhawks And Coconuts – by Keith Mulligan

•  The Blue Arena – by Bob Spurdle

•  Tiger Moths And Butterflies – by Peter Norman

•  Wings Over The Pacific – by Alex Horn

•  RNZAF: The First Decade – by Charles Darby

•  RNZAF: A Short History – by Geoffrey Bentley

•  Portrait of an Air Force – – by Geoffrey Bentley and Maurice Conly

Quick Links:

•  The RNZAF Curtiss P-40’s on adf.serials

•  The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk on Wikipedia

•  The Royal New Zealand Air Force by S/Ldr J.M.S. Ross

•  The Air Force Museum of New Zealand

•  The Museum of Transport and Technology

•  Classic Flyers NZ Museum

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