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next up who can tell me what this one is
Dec 19, 2016 14:11:10 #
aviation nation 'vegas' canon 5o d 1/1000 f/5.6 250 mm iso 160 so much interesting talk on plane picks so lets hear about this pic.
Dec 19, 2016 14:18:23 #
Bell Airacobra (WW2) It had a cannon which fired through the propeller hub & the engine was mounted behind the pilot. The driveshaft ran between the pilots legs !
Dec 19, 2016 14:19:52 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
That is a P39 Aerocobra fighter of WW2 vintage. Saw action in the Pacific and in Russia.
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Dec 19, 2016 14:24:15 #
At first glance, it looks like a Bell Airocobra, but the tail is not quite right.
Dec 19, 2016 14:56:33 #
mykie1 wrote:
aviation nation 'vegas' canon 5o d 1/1000 f/5.6 250 mm iso 160 so much interesting talk on plane picks so lets hear about this pic.
P-63F King Cobra
Designed during the war to overcome the P-39's faults and limitations. This is the only surviving "F" model, of only 2 built and is owned by the Commemorative Air Force.
Google is your friend, took me 5 minutes starting with the tail number "4117" and going through 4 sites to get to the full ID and a site just about this plane, with pictures etc.
Dec 19, 2016 15:32:32 #
Dec 19, 2016 16:10:43 #
This plane and it's parent the P-39 were intended as ground attack craft that could defend themselves in the fighter role, also hunt bombers with their 37 mm cannon.* We supplied a lot to the Soviets and they loved them for hunting tanks and things down in the weeds. They considered it second only to their own IL-2 Sturmovik. Supposedly all the P-63s were to be used in the East against Japan but at least one Soviet Pilot (in a memoir) and the Germans said that at least one Red Guard Fighter Regiment flew P-63s while officially on paper still having P-39s.
There was also a swept wing test plane and the Soviets experimented with ski landing gear.
The P-59 was a jet version limited production fighter (66 total between the Air Force, US Navy and RAF). It was the first jet fighter built in the US. Though on paper it did not exceed the P-51 by much in the real world it pretty much out classed the P-51. Things the P-51 could only do at the bleeding edge and for a short time the P-59 had as it's norm and in things like service ceiling the P-59 out did the Mustang on paper also.
*The P-39 got a bad rep because (due to lack of enough fighters) they too often tried to use it as a fighter head-to-head with planes like the Zero. But down low in the weeds and waves it was deadly hunting things like barges, tanks, trucks, bunkers, trains etc., it was a terror.
There was also a swept wing test plane and the Soviets experimented with ski landing gear.
The P-59 was a jet version limited production fighter (66 total between the Air Force, US Navy and RAF). It was the first jet fighter built in the US. Though on paper it did not exceed the P-51 by much in the real world it pretty much out classed the P-51. Things the P-51 could only do at the bleeding edge and for a short time the P-59 had as it's norm and in things like service ceiling the P-59 out did the Mustang on paper also.
*The P-39 got a bad rep because (due to lack of enough fighters) they too often tried to use it as a fighter head-to-head with planes like the Zero. But down low in the weeds and waves it was deadly hunting things like barges, tanks, trucks, bunkers, trains etc., it was a terror.
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Dec 20, 2016 22:17:47 #
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