The P-40 has been my favorite aircraft ever since I first got interested in planes at the age of five (I'm 84). This is a very informative "tour". Many thanks for the great description.

a great description of this historic aircraft. THANK YOU.

That was an outstanding presentation! Diamond clear, hugely entertaining! Well done!

Thank you sir! I've always loved the P-40 and had a model as a kid in the 80s. It would be my #1 WWII plane to buy if I had the funds. Beautiful work! Thank you for restoring it. Both my grandfathers were in WWII. One served in the Army and was in the Battle of the Bulge. The other served in the Navy in the Pacific as a radio-man in a PBY Cat. I hope to fly in a P-40 before I die. Blessings!

What a beauty, living history, great to see her back in the air where it belongs.

So much history in the old war birds. Definitely fly by the seat of your pant days.😁 Love the detailed walk around. Thanks for sharing.

He sure seems to know the plane. Also like the camera work - getting those sometimes awkward shots that show what we was explaining.

Thom sounds like a very skilled pilot and I liked that he talks about how flying this aircraft compares to other comparable fighters, as well as its technical details and history.

I like the way Thom ingresses the cockpit. Absolutely beautiful warbird. Thank you Erik!

Great video, awesome restoration. Thank you for showing us ❤

I don't know why, but the P40 has always captured my attention more than any WW2 fighter. I love the mean look of the painted ones. While I appreciate and admire the beauty and performance of the oft celebrated P51, and I love that plane too, there is just something about the P40.

I'll take it...wrap it up. It will be a lot faster than my old 152.

P-40 is an amazing fighter!

Awesome. My Uncle flew B24s in the South Pacific.

Sweet!, I want one. Thanks for sharing.

Loved the wlak through. Thanks.

Outstanding walk around! And you nailed the difference in mission profile for the P-40 vs other planes like the P-51, P-38, Spitfire, Me-109 and Fw-190. This airplane performed very well in its designed envelope. But too often it’s dismissed because it was not a competitive airplane at high altitude. (22,000 feet plus) because of it lack of multi stage supercharging. I get why these planes were not generally used on the Western European front because of the often higher altitudes air combat took place at. But if you got down into the 15,000 foot area, this bird had a pretty darn decent bite and fight in it.

Nice walk round, love the p40 fighters.

My favourite Warbird besides a tempest 2. Yeah P-51s are cool but they dont have as nice of a smile

A Beautiful and Impressive piece of History "Burma Banshee", Very Glad to see She is in Good Hands, and out where Young and Old can Admire Her and Learn About Her. The Erik Johnston Video's are an Excellent and Entertaining Source of Learning about Aviation History and The Individuals that Flew them back then, and Those that are now Flying them Today. Thumbs Up !

Another incredible video. Thank you.

The first airplane model I ever built as a little kid in the 70s was a P40. I’ve loved it ever since. Great example of a beautiful warbird!

Awesome video as usual Erik

Thom congrats on Grand Champion. It’s good to see you are still in the game. Be safe. Jerry NATG

Great host for this video

That was a fun walkaround!! Thanks Erik and Thom for sharing!!

I'm building models of the P-40 and this helped so much! Good video!

Great review of a good airplane. This 70 year old’s boyhood imagination was quite taken with the fierce sharks mouth of the 1st AVG “Flying Tigers”. The P-40 was the beginning of a life long infatuation with WWII aircraft and the brave pilots that flew them into combat. Thank you for this wonderful review. ‘Blue skies and tailwinds.’

Very good description of the old P-40! Well done! 👍

Lovely! THANKS! My favorite single.

great video. just subscribed. we live near the p-40 warhawk museum in boise idaho. amazing to see history in person.

Always my favourite plane...ciao from Italy

Erik/Thom, Great video - thank you! Beautiful Warhawk! Please stay safe! Paul (in MA)

He covered this well explained everything

beautiful bird

I've watched Thom fly his TP-40 twice at Sun 'n' Fun, and it was by far the most exhilarating warbird demo I've ever seen (sorry P-51's). I'm going again this year, and if he's flying, will choose the day I go on that basis. If I get a chance to ask him personally, I'd like to know how much lighter "American Dream" is than a standard wartime example.

Superb walk around. Thank you!

This is my favorite war bird, when i first saw one as a little kid that shark mouth really hooked me in.

Well done. Good teaching tool for me at TriState Warbird Museum where I volunteer.

..one thing he didn't mention...the "belly scoop" air intake was actually tried on the prototype P-40 first..then they decided to move it to the nose...

Wow! Incredible aircraft summary with great information. She's a beauty! Thanks.

love the plane

Love the Curtiss line. I would love for some enterprising soul to build the XP-40Q (2A, or 3A) that would be something else to see.

Would love to see a walkaround on the p51 and the spitfire

Great video. I talked to you in Spartanburg about your other p40 earlier this year. This is a nice plane as well.i subscribed

What a great video and walk around. Lovely plane.

Well Done!!!

11:42 Long tail short tail split. Nice camera angle as a short tail in the back ground for comparison 😊

More respect for the P40 now.

My favorite WW2 Plane

A little known fact is that those type of exhaust ports did provide a small amount of thrust to the aircraft.

Nice!

Great walk around! What happened to P.M.?

Very nice job!!

Love this war bird ❤

Well the p~38 lighting served. In every. Theatres. Too

The P-40 was good enough when good enough was all we had.

Hi here's wasim wow the flying machine is dashing

P-40s performed very well in the China-Burma theater. A tough airframe.

The purpose of the aircraft was to defend the homeland. John Belushi would agree :-)

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I like p-40 wen I play games

P51- europe P40-pacific theater

Such an extremely underrated fighter. And, honestly, generally screwed over by the War Production Board and the USAAF. It might never have ended up a top of the line high altitude escort fighter, but it could have had a four blade Hamilton Standard High Activity paddle prop and an 1800HP Allison engine. It would have been a far better aircraft than it was. As it was, below 20,000 feet it was pretty damned competitive with a competent pilot.

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I see another p40 smiling at me in the background…..

Wow that dude is pretty agile he just jumped right up on the wing. He must run . I wish my fat as could still do that I gotta get this weigh off . There was a time I could run 5 or 6 miles sure miss those days

Rather I talked to this pilot and owner

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Why so many P-40s in US and/or Chinese markings? Isn't it boringly repetitive and unoriginal? I really long for a P-40 in 112nd RAF squ. colors. Desert-camouflaged P-40s are, to my taste, the prettiest of all, and so hard to see today as real flying machines, while US and Chinese P-40s are so many indeed that those who are not so much into the matter may easily believe that P-40s have only been used by the US and China.

20 seconds of gunfire what good is that if you miss once your defenseless

Wouldn't want to hear or see that bird...many of men ⛼

Nice!