The P-39's spin characteristics, however, could be quite a problem if recovery techniques were ignored. The Airacobra saw combat throughout the world, particularly in the Southwest Pacific ...

I actually first read the P-39 verse in particular in Chuck Yeager’s bestselling 1986 autobiography. The late great General Yeager was among the few WWII U.S. pilots who loved the Airacobra, and ...

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake ... I’m looking up at the ruined fuselage of a Bell P-39Q Airacobra, suspended from the ceiling of a work room at the Niagara Aerospace ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. However, the aircraft ...

Ross Aerospace Museum are making strides to restore the P-39Q Airacobra, which was discovered ... was intact when Warbird Finders salvaged the P-39. The propellers were bent, however, and had ...

Just for a laugh, let's bring you one of the silliest aircraft designs of the war, the Bell P-39 Aerocobra ... American pilots quickly realized the Airacobra was more or less useless at high ...

A group of six US Army Air Forces P-39 Airacobras of D Flight ... WRECK: The remains of the United States Army Air Forces P-39D Airacobra in 1971 after a RAAF team blew up its nose which still ...

Its most lackluster member was the Bell P-39 Airacobra. Lost in the adoration of the superb fighter aircraft that both sides produced in World War II are airplanes like the P-39, which couldn’t ...