The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced ... The type was also used extensively by the Free French, the Royal Air Force, and Italian anti-fascist forces. It is safe to say that ...

In the case of the P-39, a plane that ... But Royal Air Force pilots had fought many high-altitude battles with the Luftwaffe, and hated the Airacobra. Only 601 Squadron operated the Airacobra ...

“Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39.” That is one of the verses from the humorous Air Force traditional ...

Just for a laugh, let's bring you one of the silliest aircraft designs of the war, the Bell P-39 Aerocobra ... The Airacobra also served with the Italian, Portuguese, and Australian Air Forces ...

The result was an ad hoc unit called the Cactus Air Force, after the island’s code name. Its most lackluster member was the Bell P-39 Airacobra. Lost in the adoration of the superb fighter ...

I’m looking up at the ruined fuselage of a Bell P-39Q Airacobra ... by a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter searching for a civilian aircraft—in 1965. Kent’s P-39 was identified by its ...

Although the American P-39 failed to win hearts at home ... weight of the fighter and improve maneuverability. U.S. Air Force The Airacobra coped well with landing and taxiing on soggy or snow ...