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Free Download Phil H. Listemann – The Curtiss Mohawk (Squadrons! No.17)
Philedition | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | English | 52 pages | PDF | 105.46 MB
The Curtiss Hawk 75 was the export version of the USAAC Curtiss P-36 that became, from 1936 onwards, the standard American single-seat fighter and represented a big step forward for the USAAC. The French were the first to express interest in this fighter and ordered large quantities before and during the first months of WW2. When the French ask for an armistice, all of the contracts were taken over by the British and the balance of the Curtiss H-75 still to be delivered were shipped out to the UK where they became the Mohawk. The RAF also took charge of more Mohawks coming from various sources and in all over 200 Mohawks were included in the RAF inventory. Some were handed over to the SAAF where they served in East Africa, while most would be sent to the Far East where they served until the end of 1943. The full story of the Mohawk in the RAF and in the SAAF is here told in 50 pages illustrated with 55 photos and 7 colour profiles.

Free Download Phil H. Listemann – The Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk.II (Squadrons! No.18)
Philedition | 2017 | ISBN: N/A | English | 40 pages | PDF | 24.88 MB
The Curtiss P-40 was the most numerous USAAF fighter on hand when the United States entered the war in December 1941. A development of the Curtiss P-36, the P-40 was essentially a P-36 equipped with an Allison inline V12 V-1710. The French were the first to express an interest in this model, known as the H-81, having already ordered the Curtiss H-75, the export version of the P-36. The Curtiss H-81 would later be purchased by the USAAC and the RAF as the Tomahawk. Curtiss continued to improve the breed and a new production model, the H-87, was soon available with a new version of the V-1710 that had a spur-gear reduction mechanism, raising the engine thrust-line. This caused the nose profile to be redesigned, hence the new Curtiss designation. The RAF became interested in purchasing this version as the Kittyhawk for its squadrons fighting in the Western Desert and to replace the Tomahawk already in service. In all four Marks would be used by the RAF, the Mk II corresponding to the P-40F/L and would see service in only two squadrons, the Australian 3 Squadron and the British 260 Squadron and saw action for the first time shortly before the Battle of El Alamein. The full story of the Kittyhawk Mk II is here told in 38 pages illustrated with 40 photos and 5 colour profiles.

Free Download Seth Shulman, "Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane"
English | 2003 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 0060956151, 0060196335 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss – perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time – freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was Curtiss’s innovations and designs, not the Wright brothers’, that served as the model for the modern airplane.

Free Download Louis S. Casey – Curtiss: The Hammondsport Era 1907-1915
Crown ✅Publishers | 1981 | ISBN: 0517545659 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 226.63 MB
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the dominant personality in the pioneer era of American aviation. To the Wrights goes the honor of the first powered airplane flight in 1903, but the achievements of Curtiss spanned several decades and took the airplane from its strut, wire, and fabric configuration to the forerunners of modern transport aircraft. Curtiss’s accomplishments over the years almost overshadow those of the Wrights, and in the field of marine aviation, he is without peer. In 1907 Curtiss became director of experiments of the Aerial Experiment Association founded by Alexander Graham Bell and first achieved powered flight in his Red Wing on March 12, 1908. On July 4, 1908, piloting the June Bug. Curtiss won the Scientific American trophy for the first recorded flight in excess of one kilometer. In 1909 he won the world’s airplane speed record in his Golden Flier at Rheims, France. By 1913 Curtiss was the largest manufacturer of aircraft in the United States. Planes built by Curtiss made the first carrier takeoffs and landings, carried the first autopilot, and were used to train most of America’s pilots during World War I. Curtiss: The Hammondsport Era 1907-1915 accurately documents Curtiss’s formative years from the first Aerial Experiment Association glider to the refined flying boats used during World War I. Featuring 160 photographs and 42 three-view scale drawings, this book is an essential part of the record of American aircraft development and will be of value to all aviation buffs, historians, and model builders.

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Free Download K. M. Molson, A. J. Shortt – The Curtiss HS Flying Boats
Naval Institute Press | 1995 | ISBN: 0660120151 | English | 163 pages | PDF | 103.88 MB
Profiles in Aeronautical History, Part 1