P-39 Airacobra | How To Fly | The Fighter Aircraft Used By Both The USA And The Soviets | Upscaled

[@Dronescapes]

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[@americansupervillain4595]

The designers of the P-39 really did go their own way with this one. A door instead of a sliding canopy, tricycle landing gear when most fighters at that time were tail draggers and the engine behind the pilot.

[@snappedbydan]

Isn't it brilliant? And the engine was put there to make space for the 37mm nose cannon! Literally designed around the gun 🤣

[@thedoors2001]

Engine is like addiontal armor behind a pilot, brilliant

[@tholmes2169]

Well done training film.

[@RevMikeBlack]

I really enjoyed this one. It's a well made instructional film without too much silliness. Also, I find irony in watching a "restricted" training film for a plane that was retired seven decades ago. However, there WAS a time when the Allies' enemies would have gone to great effort to obtain this film.

[@gmansard641]

My grandmother worked in the factory that built these, she may have had her hands on this very plane.

[@Dronescapes]

Bless her!

[@ianbell5611]

Thank you another great video. Happy New Year.

[@Dronescapes]

To you as well Ian

[@donlawrence1428]

Thanks, an interesting educational flick.

[@Dronescapes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jdmmike7225]

I love the pilot mouthing "Son of a bitch" at 1:43 LMAO 🤦🏻😂

[@josecedillos8507]

Exelente cana me encanta la aviación y la historia de la segunda guerra mundial y este canal tiene ambas cosas muy buenos documentales, saludos desde Costa Rica ❤

[@bombay999WT]

been looking for this

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Waiting for the ‘it stalls easily with all the weight in the back’ experts.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

US pilots had a hard time getting this aircraft to work for them how they wanted. It seems it was a low altitude brawler, since it lacked a turbosupercharger for higher altitude air combat. The Soviets made the most of it at lower levels where most Eastern Front air combat took place.

[@lknanml]

Love this plane. Spent many an hour shooting and getting showdown in IL-2

[@SteveAubrey1762]

It really was an attractive airplane.

[@georgejennings3599]

Happy New Year everyone

[@oldfatbastad6053]

they dont show stuff like this on the bbc.

[@roberttalarsky4238]

Russian had GREAT Success with this Aircraft!

[@J316djt45]

Absolutely!...Battles fought at much lower altitudes... Finns had amazing success with the Brewster Buffalo for same reason...tactics too...

[@1Dave0Mustaine1]

Plus, Russians were flying the "hot-rod" p-63 version, that plane is a beast!

[@mattich.1778]

P-39 Aircobra, best fighter plane in Soviet air force in WW2.

[@odinsson204]

Hell of a ground attack plane.

[@dukecraig2402]

It wasn't used for ground attack, that myth got started because of a poorly translated Russian saying about it.

[@I_am_not_a_dog]

What Duke said, above me. Less than 1% of lend-lease shipments of 37mm rounds for the P-39 were AP. 99%+ of the rounds were self-destroying HE-T shells. While I have no doubt that one of these shells would give the occupants of an un-armored/lightly-armored vehicle one hell of a headache, in reality this did not happen. Ammunition was short, and they were saved for their intended purpose: aircraft. Soviet pilots have explicitly stated that the P-39 was rarely-used in the ground-attack role. Occasionally strafing targets of opportunity on the way back (with the machine guns) from a patrol/mission was the most she ever got up to on a regular basis.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@I_am_not_a_dog Right, the Russian name for the P39 that caused the confusion translated to something like "Aircraft for defense of men on the ground", but it wasn't meant to imply that it was used for ground attack, instead the meaning was that it was used to shoot down aircraft that were attacking men on the ground, ie Stuka's and FW190's that were attacking Russian troops.

[@gohapasta1875]

P-39 Аэрокобра Герой войны в воздухе в СССР.Ь