{"id":3608,"date":"2018-11-28T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3608"},"modified":"2018-11-28T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:19:42","slug":"bell-p-39-airacobra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/bell-p-39-airacobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell P-39 Airacobra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-39_Airacobra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Excerpt From Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The\u00a0<b>Bell P-39 Airacobra<\/b>\u00a0was one of the principal American fighter aircraft in service when the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>\u00a0entered\u00a0<a title=\"World War II\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>. The P-39 was used by the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Soviet Air Force\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Air_Force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soviet Air Force<\/a>, and scored the highest number of individual kills attributed to any U.S. fighter type in the Eastern European theatre.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-39_Airacobra#cite_note-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[N 2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Other major users of the type included the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Free French\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_French\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free French<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Royal Air Force\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Air_Force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Air Force<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"United States Army Air Forces\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Air_Forces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Army Air Forces<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_Co-Belligerent_Air_Force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gunston_p._22_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-39_Airacobra#cite_note-Gunston_p._22-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3609\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P-39N_Airacobra_of_the_357th_Fighter_Group_at_Hamilton_Field_in_July_1943.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3609\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P-39N_Airacobra_of_the_357th_Fighter_Group_at_Hamilton_Field_in_July_1943-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"P-39N_Airacobra_of_the_357th_Fighter_Group_at_Hamilton_Field_in_July_1943\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P-39N_Airacobra_of_the_357th_Fighter_Group_at_Hamilton_Field_in_July_1943-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P-39N_Airacobra_of_the_357th_Fighter_Group_at_Hamilton_Field_in_July_1943.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-39N Airacobra of the 357th Fighter Groupm Hamilton Field, July, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Designed by\u00a0<a title=\"Bell Aircraft\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_Aircraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bell Aircraft<\/a>, it had an innovative layout, with the engine installed in the center fuselage, behind the pilot, and driving a tractor propeller via a long shaft. It was also the first fighter fitted with a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tricycle undercarriage\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tricycle_undercarriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tricycle undercarriage<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Angelucci_and_Matricardi_p._25._8-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-39_Airacobra#cite_note-Angelucci_and_Matricardi_p._25.-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Although its mid-engine placement was innovative, the P-39 design was handicapped by the absence of an efficient\u00a0<a title=\"Turbocharger\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turbocharger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turbo-supercharger<\/a>, preventing it from performing high-altitude work. As such it was rejected by the RAF for use over western Europe but adopted by the USSR where most air combat took place at medium and lower altitudes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Together with the derivative\u00a0<a title=\"Bell P-63 Kingcobra\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-63_Kingcobra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P-63 Kingcobra<\/a>, the P-39 was one of the most successful fixed-wing aircraft manufactured by Bell.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_P-39_Airacobra#cite_note-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt From Wikipedia: The\u00a0Bell P-39 Airacobra\u00a0was one of the principal American fighter aircraft in service when the\u00a0United States\u00a0entered\u00a0World War II. The P-39 was used by the\u00a0Soviet Air Force, and scored the highest number of individual kills attributed to any U.S. fighter type in the Eastern European theatre.[N 2]\u00a0Other major users of the type included the\u00a0Free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/bell-p-39-airacobra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bell P-39 Airacobra<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608\/revisions\/3611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}