Airacobra by chuter
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Description
P-39N ser.no. 42-8742 registered N81575 at Yanks Air Museum.
The engine is mounted behind the cockpit so a 37mm cannon could be put in the nose to fire through the propeller hub. Nose wheel is castoring only, not steerable (no steerable nose wheels in any combat planes during WW2). Vertical armor glass installed directly behind pilot so as not to obscure vision from radical new bubble style canopy.
Comments (5)
Mark@poser
I always liked this aircraft...Such orginal thinking as you pointed out...I know it was not very well received, but we gave the Soviets a lot of them...Thanks
Osper
Where were you when I was building my P-39??????? Great detail shots!
bmac62
I have always liked the looks of a P-39 and your photos do it justice. I never knew that the nose wheel was castoring only! I have 1000 hours in single engine, nose wheel, light aircraft and never imagined they weren't stearable at one time. No problem at high speed but at slow speed I assume each main wheel must have had individually activated brakes...such as in any taildragger.
aguirre
A rather strange bird, but somehow visionary as for the landing gear configuration and quite performant (I like to ride it in Il-2 Sturmovik by Oleg Maddox). Very well presented, interesting perspective and detail.
momof4rugrats
beautiful capture I know nothing about airplanes but this is a beautiful piece of equipment!