Airacobra

Dear Readers: We present photographs from the album of Timofey Ivanovich Karlov, kindly submitted by his granddaughter Svetlana Krasnik. Timofey Ivanovich was a…

I, Vladimir Mikhailovich Mukhmediarov, was born in Moscow in 1923. There I lived with my parents and there I went to school. My…

Dmitriy Dmitrievich Alekseev: I was born on the 25th of December 1914 in Kuryanovo village, Kirillovskiy district, Vologodskaya oblast. My father enlisted in…

Part 1. Great Patriotic War The formula of battle is simple: You should see the enemy first; Altitude is the guarantor of victory;…

Kulakov: I was born on the 4th of March, 1923, in Rabotki, about 60 km downstream from Gorkiy. A ship was frozen there…

Discovery This amazing Bell P39 was located at the bottom of Lake Mart-Yavr within the Russian Arctic Circle in the summer of 2004.…

Dear Readers, We present chapters from Valeriy Romanenko’s book Airacobras Enter Combat (Aerohobby, Kiev, 1993. ISBN 5-7707-5170-03). These chapters are prepared for publication…

The P-39D-2 in the Soviet VVS P-39D-2 Airacobras (Bell Model-14A) arrived in the USSR exclusively by the “southern” route, through Iran. Transport ships…

P-39 Airacobra from Pioneer Air Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska. This plane crashed near Ladd Field airbase in February 1994 Photos by Ilya Grinberg ©

P-39Q Airacobra from Niagara Aerospace museum, now returned from loan to Smithsonian Air And Space Museum. Photos by Iliya Grinberg ©