T he Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces ... the Royal Air Force, and Italian anti-fascist ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, ... and the 4th Stormoof the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (hitting targets in the Balkans).

Bell P-39 Airacobra: ... The Airacobra also served with the Italian, ... the very coolest example sits inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Here, a P-39Q variant of the ...

“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 ...

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.

In total, the Soviet Air Force received almost 5,000 such aircraft — more than half the total number produced. Archive photo The Soviet attitude to the P-39 was radically different.

The wreckage was discovered by a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter searching for a civilian aircraft—in 1965. Kent’s P-39 was identified by its data plate, and searchers recovered a high ...