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darbycmcd -> OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 5:23:01 PM)

Nice write up if anyone is interested. Sort of general intro for mass audience. For most of you, don't go onto main site at risk of aneurysm....

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/5/1544368/-The-Unloved



paradigmblue -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 6:55:04 PM)

Thanks for the read. I've always had a fondness for the P-39, as I live in the town that was their last stop before they were picked up by Soviet pilots to fly to the Soviet Union.



geofflambert -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 7:20:08 PM)

a P-400 was a P-40 with a Zero on it's tail [:D]

Very nice article. The movie Red Tails depicts them flying P-40s before they were issued P-51's. Was that incorrect?



geofflambert -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 7:45:36 PM)

Oldsmobile made the cannons? Does that mean they were using rockets when they fired them?

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geofflambert -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 7:50:12 PM)

You know how someone from northern Germany pronounces that? Oltzmobile.



Leandros -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/5/2016 11:12:26 PM)


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ORIGINAL: darbymcd

Nice write up if anyone is interested. Sort of general intro for mass audience. For most of you, don't go onto main site at risk of aneurysm....

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/5/1544368/-The-Unloved


Very good article - tks for posting. Many pilots that had the opportunity to build up training hours with the P-39
spoke well about it. Among them Chuck Yeager and Clarence "Bud" Anderson. It's a favourite of mine together with the
P-36 but I think they should have gone for the 20 mm cannon rather than 37 mm.

Fred



Jorge_Stanbury -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 1:22:46 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Leandros

I think they should have gone for the 20 mm cannon rather than 37 mm.



maybe they should had also taken out the wing machine guns like the Soviet did. Better plane performance while still enough firepower to take down the very unarmored Japanese planes



obvert -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 7:48:04 AM)


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ORIGINAL: paradigmblue

Thanks for the read. I've always had a fondness for the P-39, as I live in the town that was their last stop before they were picked up by Soviet pilots to fly to the Soviet Union.


Was Fairbanks a ferrying stop? Didn't know that.

My family is from there. Dad was born up there and my uncle lived there most of his life before retiring to WA. My grandfather worked on the gold-mining machinery somewhere around Fairbanks.



paradigmblue -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 7:55:48 AM)


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ORIGINAL: obvert


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ORIGINAL: paradigmblue

Thanks for the read. I've always had a fondness for the P-39, as I live in the town that was their last stop before they were picked up by Soviet pilots to fly to the Soviet Union.


Was Fairbanks a ferrying stop? Didn't know that.

My family is from there. Dad was born up there and my uncle lived there most of his life before retiring to WA. My grandfather worked on the gold-mining machinery somewhere around Fairbanks.


Yeah - Fairbanks was the place where the planes were turned over to the Soviets. 7,926 planes were transferred at Fairbanks by the end of the war.



wdolson -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 8:08:09 AM)

Actually Nome was the last stop in American air space. Fairbanks was the last major stop on the ferry route though.

Bill



paradigmblue -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 9:09:21 AM)


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ORIGINAL: wdolson

Actually Nome was the last stop in American air space. Fairbanks was the last major stop on the ferry route though.

Bill


Yes, Nome was the last stop in American air space, (and there were some support bases on Alaskan islands even further west) but Fairbanks was where the Soviets took possession of the planes.



LeeChard -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 12:29:35 PM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

a P-400 was a P-40 with a Zero on it's tail [:D]

Very nice article. The movie Red Tails depicts them flying P-40s before they were issued P-51's. Was that incorrect?

I believe the Red Tails flew P40's first.



m10bob -> RE: OT: nice light article on P-39 (7/6/2016 2:06:43 PM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

You know how someone from northern Germany pronounces that? Oltzmobile.


Dodge is pronounced "DOTE KEY"



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