Do you want to know why people don't build mid-engined airplanes anymore? It's because it took until after the Second World War for folks to realize mid-engined vehicles don't make practical sense ...

As World War II accelerated aircraft development at a breathtaking pace, Bell P-63 Kingcobra emerged as a dramatic ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The anecdote shows that fighter planes must be relevant to the purpose they are employed for. In the case of the P-39, a plane that didn’t work for the United States ...

Click to open image viewer. Colored offset lithograph of a Bell "Airacobra" P-39 aloft and in pursuit of enemy aircraft. They are flying over an ocean with an island below. Smoke is coming from the ...

Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps ...

The Bell P-39 Airacobra began life as an unconventional American fighter built around a huge cannon, a rear-mounted engine, and engineering choices that made it unlike anything else in service. Once ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

World of Warplanes made its debut on Steam earlier this month, at last bringing another piece of the Wargaming catalog to Valve's store with 12v12 dogfights amid the golden age of military aviation.

Bell P-39 Airacobra(Courtesy Wayne R. Lusardi, State of Michigan Maritime Archaeologist) Instrument panel (left) and port running light (right)(Courtesy Wayne R. Lusardi, State of Michigan Maritime ...