Author: Bert KinzeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781888974164
Category : Airacobra (Fighter plane)
Languages : da
Pages : 79
Book Description
Gennemgår de fra 2. verdenskrig kendte amerikanske jagerfly P-39 Airacobra og P-63 Kingcobra.
P-39 Airacobra
Author: Bert KinzeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781888974164
Category : Airacobra (Fighter plane)
Languages : da
Pages : 79
Book Description
Gennemgår de fra 2. verdenskrig kendte amerikanske jagerfly P-39 Airacobra og P-63 Kingcobra.
The Bell P39 Airacobra and P63 Kingcobra Fighters
Author: Yefim GordonPublisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764356803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Under the Lend-Lease agreement with the US during WWII, the Soviet Union received large quantities of war materiel, including many aircraft; the Bell P-39 Airacobra takes a special place among them. The P-39 was dismissed as hardly suitable for combat both by the US and England, who turned it over in large numbers to the USSR. Soviet pilots had different views, though, and achieved excellent results while flying the type; more than twenty Soviet aces flew the P-39. As air combat over the Russian front was conducted mostly at low altitudes, the P-39 came into its own. Innovative tactics and motivation, coupled with the P-39's sturdy construction and adequate firepower, proved successful for the Soviets. The P-39 was in Soviet service since 1942; nearly 5,000 were supplied and used on the Soviet-German front, along with 2,400 P-63 Kingcobras, which saw only limited action against Japan at the close of the war. This detailed, illustrated history features many color side views and previously unpublished photographs.
P-39 Airacobra
Author: Bruno PautignyPublisher:
ISBN: 9782352500964
Category : Airacobra (Fighter plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The P-39 Airacobra was the first fighter in the world to have a tricycle undercarriage and to have the engine mounted mid-fuselage behind the pilot. It had rather a troubled beginning because it had been designed as a fighter for the western European theater of operations where it turned out to be completely unsuitable for the role. Its hours of glory were in the Pacific where it was sent in an emergency to counter the Japanese advance, or in the hands of its Russian pilots, the USSR alone receiving almost half of those produced under Lend-Lease. The P- 63 Kingcobra, the last avatar of the controversial Airacobra family, with different wings and engine wasn't any more successful in the United States, and two thirds of the machines produced up until 1945 were also assigned to the Soviet Union. 300 examples were supplied to France which used them for its operations in Indochina at the beginning of the fifties.
Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Bell P-39 Airacobra - Curtiss P-40
Author: Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - GrafPublisher: Edizioni R.E.I.
ISBN: 2372973290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Lockheed P-38J Lightning aircraft was revolutionary, extremely innovative, thanks to double-girder fuselage, the two Allison V-engines with turbochargers within the tail beams and landing gear in tricycle. The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine fighter produced by the US to low-wing Bell Aircraft Corporation. It was the most controversial fighter aircraft used by the US during World War II. It was the first fighter in the world to have the engine installed in the middle of the fuselage, behind the pilot. The Bell P-63 Kingcobra was a single-engine low-wing fighter aircraft developed by the US Air Force Bell Aircraft Corporation in the early forties and used during World War II. Evolution of the previous P-39 Airacobra, launched in an attempt to correct the defects of that model, the United States Army Air Forces will never estimated suitable for combat, relegating him to the towing role for targets. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the production was assigned to the Soviet Union and about 300 units to units of Free France. The Curtiss P-40 was a single-seat single-engine monoplane US manufacturing in the first half of the forties was taken by the Allies as a fighter aircraft or fighter in many of the theaters in which you fought the Second World War. Produced by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, never was an aircraft with exceptional characteristics (mainly because of its engine, underpowered at high altitude); However, it was also made of a large number of specimens, and his great strength (coupled with its widespread availability since the early months of the entry into the war) made it one of the most important fighter for American aviation events in the first phase of World war II, between 1941 and the summer of 1943.
Attack of the Airacobras
Author: Dmitriĭ Fedorovich LozaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Focusing on the combat operations and daily life of one unit - the 9th Guards Fighter Division - Loza refutes the myth that the P-39 was used mainly as a "tank buster" or "flying artillery." Instead, its primary mission was to protect Red Army operations from aerial attacks by the enemy. So despite the occasional strafing of trains, truck convoys, and troops, most P-39 operations involved attacks on Luftwaffe bombers and dogfights with their fighter escorts."--BOOK JACKET.
Bell P-39 Airacobra
Author: Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - GrafPublisher: Edizioni R.E.I.
ISBN: 2372972065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a low-wing single-engine fighter produced by the US Bell Aircraft Corporation. It was the most controversial fighter aircraft used by the US during World War II. It was the first fighter in the world to have a tricycle gear and always the first to have the engine installed in the center of the fuselage, behind the driver. But his engine proved totally inadequate at high altitude, and, both in Europe and in the Pacific, the P-39, as an interceptor, found himself outclassed and was gradually relegated to secondary roles. The Bell P-63 fighter plane Kingcobra was a single-engine low-wing developed by the US Air Force Bell Aircraft Corporation in the early forties and used during the Second World War. Evolution of the previous P-39 Airacobra, launched in an attempt to correct the defects of that model, the United States Army Air Forces not evaluated never suited for combat, relegating him to the role of tow targets. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the production was assigned to the Soviet Union and about 300 units to units of Free France. He was initially assigned the provisional designation XP-39E, but the amount of changes convinced the military authorities to consider a new model by assigning it a name of its own.
P-39/P-400 Airacobra Vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen
Author: Michael John ClaringbouldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472823664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This fully illustrated study describes how American Airacobras pilots battled against the Japanese Zero pilots over extreme tropical conditions in remote New Guinea in the months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Bell P-39 Airacobra Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
Author: United States Air ForcePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935327240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The P-39 Airacobra was designed by Bell¿s brilliant engineer, Robert Woods. The plane featured a mid-engine design, intended to allow it to carry a lethal 37mm cannon in the nose. An all-metal, low-wing design, the P-39 was the first fighter to feature tricycle landing gear. The plane debuted in 1939, and proved impressive in tests. Yet the aircraft lacked a large fuel capacity that limited range, and pilots learned that its performance dropped off markedly at altitudes above 17,000 feet. Despite this, over 9,500 P-39s were built. Almost half were sent to the USSR, where Soviet pilots, flying low-level attack missions, achieved devastating results. Ace Alexander Pokryshkin flew the plane exclusively and scored nearly 60 kills. Originally printed by the USAAF and the RAF, this handbook provides a fascinating glimpse inside the cockpit of this warbird. Originally classified ¿Restricted¿, the manual was de-classified and is here reprinted in book form.
Bell P-39 Airacobra
Author: Robert PeczkowskiPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 9788361421283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed as an interceptor, when the Bell P-39 Airacobra appeared in 1941 it was acclaimed as one of the most advanced combat planes of the time. Elegantly designed and innovatively engineered (it featured the engine mid-aircraft like a racing car), it experienced mixed operational fortunes but was especially successful in the Soviet Air Force. This book is a full technical history of this important but neglected fighter of World War Two. It presents scale plans of all versions, many detailed photographs of surviving aircraft, full color illustrations of the aircraft in the different liveries of its many users: USAAF, RAF, Soviet, French, Italian and others, in total more than 50 color profiles.
Attack of the Airacobras
Author: Dmitriĭ Fedorovich LozaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Focusing on the combat operations and daily life of one unit - the 9th Guards Fighter Division - Loza refutes the myth that the P-39 was used mainly as a "tank buster" or "flying artillery." Instead, its primary mission was to protect Red Army operations from aerial attacks by the enemy. So despite the occasional strafing of trains, truck convoys, and troops, most P-39 operations involved attacks on Luftwaffe bombers and dogfights with their fighter escorts."--BOOK JACKET.