P-40 Tomahawk - Flying Tigers Government Aircraft Korean war experience revealed an

Korean war experience revealed an urgent USAF need for a high-performance jet-powered night-intruder aircraft capable of precise nighttime and bad-weather weapons delivery on moving targets located hundreds of miles from home base

and overseas--to guard against possible air attack

Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter model

GBU-43 MOAB bomb display model

and fully integrated cockpit

P-40 Tomahawk - Flying Tigers Government Aircraft Korean war experience revealed anCurtiss P 40 Tomahawk Flying Tigers airplane model. The P 40 gained its greatest fame as the plane of the famed Flying Tigers. In the late 1930's Japanese forces were inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese. President Roosevelt promised the Chinese president that the United States would help, even though the US was not at war. The United States provided obsolete P 40B airplanes, but China didn't have the pilots to fly them. The U. S. Army, Navy and