This is an Airacobra Thread

"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 03/06/2016 at 19:24 • Filed to: Airacobra, bell, P-39, planelopnik

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Leadbull > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:29

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I’ll just get this out of the way.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:31

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ttyymmnn > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:35

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From the Central Texas Air Show in 2010, before I learned how to take pictures.

McMike > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:36

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Another example of rear-engine, front-wheel-drive that never caught on.

Shane MacGowan's Teeth > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:36

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Here we see the wild Airacobra in its natural habitat:

Slave2anMG > ttyymmnn 03/06/2016 at 19:47

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Bloody hell. I had no idea any were airworthy...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:48

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Deadly down low.

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviat…

DrJohannVegas > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 19:51

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The first A-10 (in that it’s designed around a weapon platform). When I toured the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow a few years back, I spent a good few minutes staring at the P-63 on exhibit. (Terrible condition, but still great to see.)

Edit: See here - http://pobeda.poklonnayagora.ru/description/22…

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Shane MacGowan's Teeth 03/06/2016 at 19:55

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Lieutenant Baranovsky’s Airacobra

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Leadbull 03/06/2016 at 19:58

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But this motherfucking plane is a motherfucking snake.

ttyymmnn > McMike 03/06/2016 at 20:00

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Never caught on? Bell made 9,588 of them. And about half of those were sent to Russia. The Russkies loved ‘em. Five of the 10 highest scoring Soviets aces logged the majority of their kills in P-39s.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/06/2016 at 20:07

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I missed this. My subscription has run out. Thanks.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/06/2016 at 20:08

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Now, that is a photograph. One of these days, I’m going to get out to the CAF air show in Midland. It’s a long drive, though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 03/06/2016 at 20:11

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ForSweden has a nice on up top.

McMike > ttyymmnn 03/06/2016 at 20:12

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Never caught on, as in “we never saw that silly layout again.”

Like these guys: http://jalopnik.com/this-chart-sho…

I actually loved that thing when I was a kid. It was mid-engined like a Ferrari, had a big cannon like a Warthog, tricycle gear, and windows like the General Lee

ttyymmnn > Shane MacGowan's Teeth 03/06/2016 at 20:17

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That picture immediately reminded me of this .

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/06/2016 at 20:19

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Better light in your photo, though. And framed against that big cumulus cloud. And the pilot’s face.

McMike > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 20:24

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Not a single driveshaft failure.

sunnydaysam > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 22:48

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Chuck Yeager said in his book that he’d gladly have gone to war in a P-39. The Russians loved it for it’s tank busting ability with that cannon in the nose, a great ground attack aircraft.

DarkCreamyBeer > For Sweden 03/06/2016 at 23:28

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Second only to the P-38 amongst Army Air Corps single seaters for me, and third behind the Corsair amongst US single seaters. The Soviets made very good use of them on the Eastern Front. Unfortunately the P-47 had largely replaced them in US service by Normandy in the ground support role.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > For Sweden 03/07/2016 at 12:29

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Pun you need to appreesh:

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/looks-like-he-…

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > McMike 03/07/2016 at 12:30

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Unenclosed? So you could get your bootlaces wrapped around it?

McMike > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/07/2016 at 13:24

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That view doesn’t have the seat or the stick boot.

This render was the best I could find.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > McMike 03/07/2016 at 13:34

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You can kind of see it in Ttyymmnn’s shot below. Thanks for clarifying.