[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work: P-39 Airacobra

[Dennis DuVall]

Wonder how the P-39 would have performed with a RR Merlin in it.  Airframe probably not up to it..

DD, W7QHO

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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 6:52 PM, George Babits <gbabits at custertel.net> wrote:
> 
> From what I have heard,  the P-39s were sent to Russia.  I talked to one of the old timers here 10 or so years ago and he remembered that several of them "crashed" around here (Salmon, Idaho) when they ran out of fuel on their way to Russia via Alaska.  They were all picked up, hauled out by truck, repaired, and maybe eventually made it to Russia.
> 
> 73,
> George
> W7HDL
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> To: "David Edsall" <dedsall at myfairpoint.net>
> Cc: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 7:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work: P-39 Airacobra
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> 
> On 12 Mar 2017 at 21:32, David Edsall wrote:
> 
>> The P-39 was also sent to the Soviet Union and saw combat there.
> 
> As far as I am aware, MOST P-39s ended up in Russia.
> 
>> One of their top aces, Pokryshkin, and his outfit flew it for some time.
>> His memoirs describe the introduction of the plane and its use.
>> I´ll dig out his books and look it up, if anyone is interested.
> 
> I am very interested in such stories.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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