The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was one of the principal American...
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Bell P-63 Kingcobra is an American fighter aircraft that was developed by Bell Aircraft during World War II. Based on the preceding Bell P-39 Airacobra, the...
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cost twice as much as a surplus P-39 Airacobra, therefore two P-39Q-10-BEs were purchased for their propellers. L-39-2 was fitted with the fuselage extension...
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the same time, Circular Proposal X-609, in response to which the Bell P-39 Airacobra was designed. Both proposals required liquid-cooled Allison V-1710 engines...
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a P-40. Some Soviet P-40 squadrons had good combat records. Some Soviet pilots became aces on the P-40, though not as many as on the P-39 Airacobra, the...
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Army Air Corps’ land-based P-39 Airacobra, differing mainly in the use of a tailwheel undercarriage in place of the P-39's tricycle gear. Only one prototype...
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"Colt M4" or "Oldsmobile M4." It was primarily mounted in the Bell P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra, with the U.S. Navy also utilizing it on many PT boats...
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P-76 was proposed to address the poor high-altitude performance of the P-39 Airacobra by incorporating a new and thicker wing with a symmetrical airfoil;...
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Benjamin S. Kelsey (section P-39 Airacobra)
the technical specifications which led to the development of the P-39 Airacobra and the P-38 Lightning. He worked around Air Corps strictures to initiate...
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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the American company Republic Aviation from 1941 through 1945. It was...
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the only American fighter pilot to become a flying ace in the Bell P-39 Airacobra. Fiedler was born on June 5, 1920, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew...
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the single engine P-39 Airacobra, which 9,588 were built. Putting their previous experience with Allison engines to good use, the P-39 placed the engine...
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drag by fitting the engine in mid-fuselage in a similar layout to the P-39 Airacobra. It was hoped to improve maneuverability by positioning the engine near...
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having achieved the great majority of his kills in the Lend-Lease Bell P-39 Airacobra. During the war Pokryshkin earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union...
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fighters, such as the French Dewoitine D.520, or the American Bell P-39 Airacobra, and dated back to World War I's small run of SPAD S.XII moteur-canon...
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Michael F. P-51 Mustang. Yeovil, UK: Winchmore Publishing Services Ltd., 1984, ISBN 0-85429-423-6. Johnsen, Frederick A. Bell P-39/P-63 Airacobra & Kingcobra...
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the new aircraft, the Bell P-39 Airacobra. Landing at the harbor of Suva, the men of the 70th FS began to struggle with their P-39s in the tropical downpours...
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from the Vought F4U Corsair in a general layout much as in the Bell P-39 Airacobra with the engine located amidships with the contra-rotating propellers...
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Westland Welkin Westland Wyvern M1 Bell P-39 Airacobra - some early 20 mm-armed models and RAF Bell Airacobra I Lockheed P-38 Lightning - some early 20 mm-armed...
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accident on 25 August 1944, while converting from the C.205 to the P-39 Airacobra. Martinoli gained a glider pilot's licence in 1937. The following year...
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missions over Europe. Davis flew sixty missions in P-39 Airacobra, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, and P-51 Mustang fighters and was one of the first...
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Tucker XP-57 (redirect from P-57 Peashooter)
fame, was to sit behind the pilot in a configuration similar to the P-39 Airacobra. The USAAC ordered an XP-57 prototype. When design was delayed due to...
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potential attack of high-performance bombers. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning and Bell P-39 Airacobra were also initially specified to carry very heavy armament...
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torpedoed during World War II Caribou, the export version of the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft HMCS Caribou (S12), a Royal Canadian Navy armed yacht...
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Allison V-1710 (redirect from Allison V-1710-39)
Bell P-39 Airacobra Bell P-63 Kingcobra Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender Curtiss XP-60A Curtiss P-37 Douglas...
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Hurricane fighters, American P-39 Airacobra, P-40 fighters, known in Russia under the names "Tomahawk" and "Kittyhawk", P-63 Kingcobra, American bombers...
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during the Second World War. Bell P-39 Airacobra (5,007 supplied from the United States, 4,719 reached Soviet Union) Bell P-63 Kingcobra (2,421 supplied from...
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Bell P-39 Airacobra - Fighter Bell P-59 Airacomet - Jet fighter Bell P-63 Kingcobra - Fighter Bell XP-77 - Prototype lightweight fighter Boeing P-26 Peashooter...
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Buffalo and the P-39 Airacobra were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero, others such as the Army's Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and...
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