Arizona Daily Star

Rare, restored World War II fighter on display at Pima Air & Space Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Road, has added a newly restored aircraft, recovered from a New Guinea jungle, to its Pacific-theater WWII hangar: the rare Bell P-39N Airacobra.
autoevolution

Bell P-39 Airacobra: Mid Engined, But No C8 Corvette With Wings

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 ...
The National Interest

American Pilots Hated the P-39 Airacobra – But Russia Loved It

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The anecdote shows that fighter planes must be relevant to the purpose they are employed for. In the case of the P-39, a plane that didn’t work for the United States ...
insider.si.edu

Airacobra Advantage : the flying cannon : the complete story of Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-39 pursuit fighter plane / by Rick Mitchell

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!472724~!0#focus ...
insider.si.edu

Bell P-39/P-63 : Airacobra & Kingcobra / by Frederick A. Johnsen

"Rare pinball tech details; earliest P-39s through last P-63s; cockpit photos; P-39 tumbling problem; laminar wing P-63; Russian export versions"--P. [1] of cover. siris_sil_631757 ...