Training For The Future.

[Modern Elmo]

The transmission for the Hawk may re-learn the lessons of the Bell P39.

Apparently the worst flaw of the P39 and P63 was poor spin rcovery ... center of gravity too far aft and not enough rudder authority.

That Hawk should have a large-ish caliber gun firing through the propeller hub. ... One of the good points of the AirCobra and KingCobra.

The Reds used a lot of 'em back in the day:




Cobras over the Tundra (Paperback)
by Everett A. Long (Author), Irina Balayeva (Illustrator), Podvig (Photographer), Berezhnoy. V (Photographer), Pestyerev. V (Photographer), Stefansky. V (Photographer), Debabov. D (Photographer), Long. E (Photographer), Negenblya. I (Photographer), Ben Brown (Photographer), USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation Central Archives (Photographer), I. Shabaliana (Editor), O. Mikhaylova (Editor), Tatiana Long Reznik (Editor), Tatiana Gunko (Translator), Elena Sampson (Translator) "During the tragic years of World War II, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were rapidly expanding and bringing the major Nations of the world into..." (more)
Key Phrases: ferrying route, air route, Watson Lake, Soviet Union, Ladd Field (more...)


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Russian Cobras - how did they get there?, January 30, 2003
By D. P. Broer (LEIDEN, ZH Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This books tells a relatively unknown story, the story about how American Lend-Lease aircraft were transfered to Russia. From the 14.500-odd planes that went to the Russians during WW2, almost 8.000 went by the ALSIB route (Alaska-Siberia). 2.618 of these were Airacobras, 2.397 of them Kingcobras. This book describes how it was done and by whom, both in English and in Russian. ...

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