Hatching Hawks

Today we bring you a super-groovy photo of  several P-40B/Cs under construction here in Buffalo, New York circa early-mid 1941... the photographer may have been LIFE's Dmitri Kessel.

It's sad to think that only a few short months after this photo was taken, it's quite possible that some, or all, of these ships would lay as smoldering wrecks in Hawaii and the Philippines... never having been used to perform the task for which they were built.

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Beginnings

Today we bring you an old Curtiss advertisement with several shots of the original Buffalo factory, from the August 15th, 1917 issue of 'Aviation' magazine. The aircraft under construction appear to be early variants of the 'Jenny'.

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