Built around a powerful nose-mounted cannon and an unconventional mid-engine layout, the Bell P-39 Airacobra promised a new kind of fighter but stumbled at altitude. Follow its troubled development, ...

When Bell Aircraft introduced the P-39 Airacobra in the late 1930s, it looked like a glimpse into the future, sleek, fast, ...

Do you want to know why people don't build mid-engined airplanes anymore? It's because it took until after the Second World War for folks to realize mid-engined vehicles don't make practical sense ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The anecdote shows that fighter planes must be relevant to the purpose they are employed for. In the case of the P-39, a plane that didn’t work for the United States ...

"Rare pinball tech details; earliest P-39s through last P-63s; cockpit photos; P-39 tumbling problem; laminar wing P-63; Russian export versions"--P. [1] of cover. siris_sil_631757 ...

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 ...

World of Warplanes made its debut on Steam earlier this month, at last bringing another piece of the Wargaming catalog to Valve's store with 12v12 dogfights amid the golden age of military aviation.

Bell P-39 Airacobra(Courtesy Wayne R. Lusardi, State of Michigan Maritime Archaeologist) Instrument panel (left) and port running light (right)(Courtesy Wayne R. Lusardi, State of Michigan Maritime ...