“Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39.” That is one of the verses from the humorous Air Force traditional drinking song ...

Built around a massive 37mm cannon with a radical mid-engine layout, the P-39 looked like the future until one design compromise crippled its high-altitude performance. Follow its bumpy path from ...

What was America's most successful fighter aircraft during World War II? Many might say the Mustang, the P-38 Lightning, or the P-47 Thunderbolt, but the real answer might surprise you: the Bell P-39 ...

The P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra were manufactured by the Bell Aircraft Corporation on April 6, 1938, and December 7, 1942, respectively. The P-39 was innovative in multiple ways: First, it had ...

Pieces of a downed Tuskegee Airmen P-39 fighter plane wreckage are being hauled from Lake Huron to preserve history at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum. The Tuskegee Airmen were the ...