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DeltaV said:
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Reportedly a P-39D in Australia.
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I love the P-39. Pretty unique craft, they learned a lot from it's design. It's real fault was missing a supercharger, so high altitude it suffered. Not many built, it was almost a stepping stone in design to the more commonly known aircraft that came after and were built in much bigger numbers.
 
That must have been a fairly heavy bird.

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Detective D said:
I love the P-39. Pretty unique craft, they learned a lot from it's design. It's real fault was missing a supercharger, so high altitude it suffered. Not many built, it was almost a stepping stone in design to the more commonly known aircraft that came after and were built in much bigger numbers.
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Not many built? They made over 9,500 of them. Of all the American designed fighters during that war, the Airacobra scored more kills than any other type, mostly in the hands of Soviet pilots.
 
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In 1943, one Typhoon, R7881 was converted to a prototype night fighter (N.F. Mk. IB), fitted with A.I. (Airborne Interception, i.e., radar) equipment, a special night-flying cockpit and other modifications
 
The nose looks too short on that. Looks like they pushed the firewall back all the way to the main wing spar. Remarkable.
 
Anyone know what the "speed board" on later P-38 models was? I came across one reference to this. Seems P-38's operating in Europe were getting shot down because the pilots couldn't get the engines out of cruise mode and into combat mode quickly enough. The "speed board" was the fix for that problem. And that's all I've ever been able to find out about it.
 
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