What was America's most successful fighter aircraft during World War II? Many might say the Mustang, the P-38 Lightning, or the P-47 Thunderbolt, but the real answer might surprise you: the Bell P-39 ...
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 ...
In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it. Courtesy Boris Osetinskiy Via Mark Sheppard And Ilya Grinberg Most of the ...