Word: airacobra
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...hate to have taken an Airacobra out there yesterday,' said one American pilot, who was in the unusual position of being able to compare the fighting qualities of the two planes...
...American pilots in this Spitfire squadron were brought up on Curtiss P-40s and Bell Airacobra P-39s. They said they preferred the Airacobras to the P-40s, but they found the British Spitfires infinitely preferable in nearly every way to the Airacobras...
...factual record of eight months of war, that the equipment our men are taking into war is good. In fact, a great deal of it is better than good; it is superior in quality and performance." General Arnold then ran through the list of leading U.S. planes-P-40, Airacobra, Lockheed P-38 and North American P-51 fighters; Fortresses, Liberators, B-25 and B-26 bombers-and left the net impression that all were top-hole...
Grapevine Discipline. The Army is launching a new safety campaign with posters. Some of the posters point out the differences in the characteristics of different planes. "A P39 [Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
...public heard that the Japanese Zero was a superior plane, then read that the antiquated Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk) knocked the whey out of it. Reports said the Bell P39 (Airacobra) had too fragile a landing gear for the rough fields of Russia; other reports from the Red Front had Airacobras fighting German planes to a standstill. The later P-40s (Kittyhawks) supposedly couldn't get high enough to fight Messerschmitts, but in Libya the Kittyhawk, with Spitfires, took control of the air and held...