Bell P-39 Airacobra

Bell P-39 Airacobra adalah salah satu pesawat tempur Amerika utama dalam pelayanan ketika Amerika Serikat memasuki Perang Dunia II. P-39 digunakan dengan sukses besar oleh Angkatan Udara Soviet, yang mencetak angka tertinggi individu membunuh dikaitkan dengan setiap jenis tempur AS. Pengguna utama lainnya dari jenis yang termasuk Free French, Royal Air Force, United States Army Air Forces, dan Co-Belligerent Angkatan Udara Italia.

Dirancang oleh Bell Aircraft, itu memiliki tata letak yang inovatif, dengan mesin dipasang di badan pesawat tengah, di belakang pilot, dan mengemudi baling-baling traktor melalui poros panjang. Itu juga tempur pertama dilengkapi dengan undercarriage roda tiga.

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Pranala luar 

 Manual: (1944) Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions for Army Model P-39Q-1 Airplane
 "World's Deadliest Fighting Ship", Popular Science, November 1941 first large article on P-39 published in U.S. for general public
 1941 magazine cover art of P-39
 P-39 Airacobra by Joe Baugher
 XFL-1 Airabonita
 Bell P-39 Airacobra at acepilots.com
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 [http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/WW2guneffect.htm "Aircraft guns of WWII at nildram.co.uk] 
 The Bell XP-39 Airacobra 
 
 "Giant Killer!" a 1941 advertisement for the Airacobra in Flight''
 "The Bell Caribou – Latest Information on this Ultra-modern American Fighter." Flight, 1941
 "An Airacobra squadron." Flight, 1941
 "Conventional and unconventional." Flight, 1945