Design Analysis of the Bell Airacobra from Cannon to Tail (1943)

[fubar57]

This is probably already here but after an extensive 20 second search I couldn't find it

 

[pbehn]

Will I end up on the thread that shall not be named if I open it?

 

[Crimea_River]

Let the games begin......

 

[PFVA63]

Hi,
Thanks for posting that. I have been trying to collect aircraft component weight breakdowns for a while.
PAt

 

[GrauGeist]

There's something really familiar about this...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

 

[fubar57]

I briefly thought about renaming it, "Design Analysis of the Bell Groundhog from Cannon to Tail (1943) but I figured some people might find the download useful and miss it if I did, not getting the in-house joke

 

[pbehn]

A modern moral dilemma, I feel your pain.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Good, factual data on an oft maligned aircraft is always welcome.

 

[MIflyer]

Is it different from this one?

P-39 Design Analysis

Everybody liked the A6M3 design analysis and the P-39 ads. Here is the start of the P-39 design analysis.

ww2aircraft.net

 

[fubar57]

Yours is just missing the original cover

 

[MIflyer]

A few other related items I think I may have posted a while back.

 

[fubar57]

Look at that pesky nose armor preventing the Groundhog from being the best fighter.....EVER!!!!

 

[nuuumannn]

I thought that picture looked familiar...

Europe 328

A Russian Pilot's Notes for the Airacobra in a museum in Berlin. I posted this elsewhere recently.

 

[sandokan]

Thanks a lot mate!

 

[MIflyer]

Look at that pesky nose armor preventing the Groundhog from being the best fighter.....EVER!!!!

Do you think they took the nose armor off the Cobra I and Cobra II racers? I doubt that; I think it probably was integral to the gearbox.

I recall reading that a P-39 pilot said that one of the better aspects of the P-39 is that if some instruments did not work, you could get by with not much more than an ASI, a tachometer, and the gearbox oil pressure gauge, which is a rather odd "vital" instrument.

 

[P-39 Expert]

Look at that pesky nose armor preventing the Groundhog from being the best fighter.....EVER!!!!

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[emu27]

Look at that pesky nose armor preventing the Groundhog from being the best fighter.....EVER!!!!

Name the American built fighter in which the highest scoring allied pilot claimed his kills.

 

[SaparotRob]

P-38.
I'm assuming a trick question.

 

[GrauGeist]

I'm seeing the keywords:
"American built fighter"
"Highest scoring Allied pilot"

So this is probably pointed at Kozhedub Pokryshkin and the P-39...

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