Call To Arms: The Mustang Goes To War As the war began, the United Kingdom (UK) expressed interest in the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, and the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, but ...

She learned to fly some of the most challenging aircraft of the era, including the Bell P-39 Airacobra and the Martin B-26 Marauder—a bomber so dangerous it earned the nickname “Widowmaker.” But ...

Undeterred, Petter decided the Wyvern should instead place a single Eagle (engine, not bird) behind the pilot and drive the propeller by a shaft a la Bell P-39 Airacobra, allowing a good view over the ...

Bell had built aircraft like the P-39 Airacobra, and the P-63 Kingcobra, which largely served in an export role in the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

Though the company initially focused on fixed-wing aircraft like the Bell P-39 Airacobra, it soon turned to helicopters, renaming itself the Bell Helicopter. The Bell 47 prototype took its first ...

It’s unbelievable.” On the issue of Dixon advisers, the regulator explained that between 1 January 2021 and 10 May 2022, E&P appointed 39 advisers who were Dixon representatives. “Of those, 27 were ...

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 ...

The P-30, that Airacobra is developed by Bell Aircraft, and they built about 20,000 of them. So, the airplane itself isn't particularly special or unique, but its affiliation with the Tuskegee ...

Tuskegee Airmen Project: “ Michigan’s state maritime archeologist, Wayne Lusardi, documents the wreck of a Bell P-39 Airacobra lost by a Tuskegee Airman during a WWII training mission.” ...

Bell did eventually take a second stab at the P-39 design in the larger P-63 Kingcobra, which featured a four-bladed propeller, laminar flow wings devised by NACA, and—finally!— a turbocharger ...

Bell P-39 Airacobra: Most Hated by the Americans… “ 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 ...