== Consensensus, again?  ) == 
 So let me understand... if you people there decide to write something that is not supported by an important part of aviation history because you have the consensus, if it so... you write it, and nobody can modify it because is contradictory with what you have written? And you speak of the interest of the reader? The reader wants objective informations and if you put in the top part that the P-39 was an exceptional dogfithers (even with the russians) YOU may mislead the readers! The P 39 was an unhappy plane and YOU know it !! That's why Allied gave it in such big amounts to the Russians that did not care to loose thousands of planes and pilots (you know about some guys like Hartmann, Rall, Lipferd etc., right?) 
 God bless you.